COVID-19: Active cases fall across Milton and Halton, three deaths reported across Region

There is a big drop in active cases in Milton and Halton as the first wave of cases from Maplehurst’s outbreak have been declared resolved.

Across Halton, there are 26 new cases. That brings the total to 8938 cases. With 8447 resolved cases and 182 deaths, Halton is now at 309 active cases – 94 less than yesterday.

In Milton, there are five new cases. The total case count is now 2842. With 2726 resolved cases and 33 deaths, Milton is now at 83 active cases – 66 less than yesterday.

There are three more deaths across Halton. The deaths appear to have been two Burlington residents (49 deaths total), and a Halton Hills resident (42 deaths total). Oakville remains at 58 deaths total.

Looking at Milton’s major ongoing outbreaks:

Since Sunday, January 10th, there have been 27 reported cases at Allendale. 13 are residents, two are staff members, five are unspecified, and the other seven are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases. There have been four deaths at the LTCH: two were residents, while the other two are still not specified.
On Monday, January 18th, the Halton Region reported an outbreak at what is classified as ‘Congregate Living – 37’. It’s believed that this is Maplehurst Correctional Facility, which was reportedly experiencing an outbreak at the same time of the same magnitude. As of the time of writing, there have been 276 total cases reported during this outbreak. 177 have been residents, nine have been staff members, five are currently unspecified, and 85 are categorized as ‘non-Halton’ cases.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including roughly 1,076 new cases province-wide. There have been 283,587 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 11, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	283,587	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	1,076 As part of Toronto Public Health’s (TPH) migration to CCM, TPH case counts are under-reported today, resulting in an underestimate of the daily counts.	0.4% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	264,459	93.3
Change from previous report	1,415	0.5% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	14,832	5.2
Subset of all cases that are reported as a health care worker^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}associated with long-term care outbreaks	6,452	2.3
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	6,632	2.3
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,777	57.0
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for health care workers^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}^{footnote 2[2]}in long-term care homes	10	0.2

Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to February 11, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	275
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	3

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 11, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	138,962
Female	143,087
19 and under	37,163
20-39	103,655
40-59	82,022
60-79	41,026
80 and over	19,665

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 11, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	10,268,451
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	62,012
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	38,345

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 11, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	763
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}	295
Number of patients currently in ICU^{footnote 13[13]}on a ventilator with COVID-19	204

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