COVID-19: Two more Milton residents are dead

Coming out of the weekend, the Halton Region says that two more residents have died from COVID-19.

Both deaths were Milton residents. That brings our town up to 45 total deaths from the virus. Oakville remains at 63, Halton Hills is at 57 and Burlington is at 53. Halton is now up to 218 total deaths.

Across Halton, there are 98 new cases. The total number of cases is up to 16,272. With 15,276 resolved cases and 218 deaths, Halton is now at 778 active cases – 78 less than Friday’s count. The Region says that of the 16,272 total cases, 15,773 were confirmed positive while 539 were considered probable cases.

In Milton, we have 31 new cases. That brings us to 5305 total cases. With 5029 resolved cases and 45 deaths, Milton is at 231 active cases – 49 less than Friday’s number. The Region says that of the 5305 total cases, 5104 were confirmed positive while 201 were considered probable cases.

The Halton Region is detailing the number of COVID-19 variant cases. It says that 4600 total variant cases have been found in Halton. Milton has reportedly had 1634 total variant cases.

The Halton Region is also noting vaccination numbers. A total of 232,815 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Halton. 203,668 of the doses were to Halton residents.

Here’s a breakdown on ages of those receiving doses:

7555 doses have been administered to people aged 16-24;
7595 doses have been administered to people aged 25-29;
8819 doses have been administered to people aged 30-34;
10,467 doses have been administered to people aged 35-39;
16,981 doses have been administered to people aged 40-44;
18,524 doses have been administered to people aged 45-49;
19,799 doses have been administered to people aged 50-54;
24,179 doses have been administered to people aged 55-59;
26,173 doses have been administered to people aged 60-64;
23,970 doses have been administered to people aged 65-69;
22,307 doses have been administered to people aged 70-74;
17,384 doses have been administered to people aged 75-79;
29,046 doses have been administered to people aged 80+; and,
16 doses have been administered to people that are pending.

The following is where the vaccine doses have been administered:

33,651 doses have been administered through pharmacies and physicians’ offices;
20,049 doses have been administered through the Halton Region Public Health and Paramedic Mobile Teams;
179,115 doses have been administered through community and hospital-based clinics.

Below are the numbers for Ontario, including roughly 2716 new cases province-wide. There have been 495,019 total cases in Ontario.

Summary of cases of COVID-19: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to May 9, 2021
Severity	Number	Percentage
Number of cases^{footnote 1[1]}	495,019	N/A
Change from previous report (new cases)	2,716	0.6% increase
Resolved^{footnote 2[2]}	454,701	91.9
Change from previous report	3,110	0.7% increase
Subset of all cases that are reported to be long-term care residents^{footnote 3[3]}^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}	15,203	3.1
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	7,019	1.4
Total number of deaths^{footnote 7[7]}	8,327	1.7
Deaths^{footnote 7[7]}reported for residents in long-term care homes^{footnote 4[4]}^{footnote 5[5]}^{footnote 6[6]}	3,931	47.2
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 May 9, 2021
Variant	Cases
Lineage B.1.1.7 (UK variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	93,263
Lineage B.1.351 (South African variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	511
Lineage P.1 (Brazilian variant)^{footnote 8[8]}	1,558

Demographics – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to May 9, 2021
Case characteristics	Number
Male	246,068
Female	245,106
19 and under	77,181
20-39	183,784
40-59	142,661
60-79	67,232
80 and over	24,052

Testing – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to May 9, 2021
Testing	Number
Total tests completed^{footnote 9[9]}	14,529,616
Total tests completed in the previous day^{footnote 10[10]}	27,175
Currently under investigation^{footnote 11[11]}	12,837

Hospitalizations – Ontario, January 15, 2020 to May 9, 2021
Hospitalizations	Number
Number of patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19^{footnote 12[12]}	1,632As 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]}	828
Number of patients currently in ICU, testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	767
Number of patients currently in ICU due to COVID, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	61
Total patients in ICU on a ventilator due to COVID-related critical illness^{footnote 13[13]}^{footnote 15[15]}	547
Number of patients currently in ICU on a ventilator with COVID-19^{footnote 13[13]}	513
Patients in ICU due to COVID on a ventilator, no longer testing positive for COVID^{footnote 13[13]}	34

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