COVID-19: More than 100 new cases across Halton

The Halton Region’s latest COVID-19 update shows more than 100 new cases across the region.

There are 107 new cases across Halton. The total number of cases is up to 11,421. With 10,672 resolved cases and 200 deaths, Halton is now at 549 active cases – 76 more than Thursday’s count. The Region says that of the 11,421 total cases, 11,035 were confirmed positive while 386 were considered probable cases.

In Milton, we have 40 new cases. That brings us to 3657 total cases. With 3417 resolved cases and 36 deaths, Milton is now at 204 active cases – 49 more than Thursday’s number. The Region says that of the 3657 total cases, 3515 were confirmed positive while 142 were considered probable cases.

The Halton Region is also detailing the number of COVID-19 variant cases. It says that 906 total variant cases have been found in Halton. Milton has reportedly had 323 total variant cases.

The Premier of Ontario also announced a third shutdown for the province last week that went into effect on Saturday, April 3rd. The provincewide emergency brake would put in place time-limited public health and workplace safety measures to help to stop the rapid transmission of COVID-19 variants in communities, protect hospital capacity and save lives. Read the latest here.

The Halton Region is also noting vaccination numbers. The numbers are updated weekly, with the most recent being on Thursday, April 1st. A total of 82,111 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Halton:

44,337 have been administered through the Halton Healthcare COVID-19 Vaccination Centre;
15,099 have been administered through the Halton Region Public Health and Paramedic Mobile Teams;
22,675 have been administered through the newly launched COVID-19 vaccination clinics.

READ NOW: COVID-19: Halton residents 60 and over can soon get vaccinated

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including 2938 new cases province-wide. There have been 364,537 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 4, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	364,537	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	2,938	0.8% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	331,600	91.0
Change from previous report	1,761	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]}	15,069	4.1
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	6,836	1.9
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	7,450	2.0
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,903	52.4
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for health care workers^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}^{footnote 2[2]}in long-term care homes	10	0.1

Summary of confirmed variant of concern (VOC) cases: Ontario, up to April 4, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	2,135
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	71
Lineage P.1 (Brazilian variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	103

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 4, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	180,381
Female	182,027
19 and under	53,106
20-39	133,542
40-59	104,713
60-79	51,351
80 and over	21,740

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 4, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	12,817,856
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	36,563
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	17,739

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 4, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	942As we often observe on weekends, more than 10% of hospitals did not submit data to the Daily Bed Census. We anticipate the number of hospitalized patients may increase when reporting compliance increases.
Total patients in ICU due to COVID-related critical illness^{footnote 13[13]}^{footnote 14[14]}	494
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	469
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	25
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness^{footnote 13[13]}^{footnote 15[15]}	293
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19^{footnote 13[13]}	284
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	9

Now Playing