This is the Sunday, April 4, 2021 coronavirus update. Oakville's active outbreaks dropped by two, so now there are no outbreaks in long term care or retirement residences; however active cases continued to increase along with hospitalizations. Halton also recorded more active cases and hospitalizations.
Halton's health indicators of concern are:
- Daily incident rate of 90.7 cases per 100,000
- Effective Reproductive Number at 1.3
- Hospitalizations daily intake rate of 1.7 new patients
- Positivity rate of 3.8%,
- Acute care occupancy of 90%
- 82% of new cases are reached in one day
Halton has administered 82,112 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as of April 1, 2021. This number should jump dramatically as pharmacies and primary health care providers are now involved in the vaccination program.
Government of Ontario will not be updating numbers on Sunday, April 4 due to it being Easter Sunday. It will provide its next update on Monday, April 5, 2021. The province is currently sitting with one million COVID-19 vaccination doses.
Update on vaccine appointments:
On April 6th, six Oakville pharmacies providing COVID-19 AstraZeneca Vaccination for people born between and including 1957 and 1966.
Note: Oakville figures are updated seven days a week with Ontario and global cases. Schools do not update on weekends (the next update will be on April 6 due to the Easter long weekend.)
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
There are no outbreaks in Long Term Care or Retirement Homes in Oakville
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on April 3, 2021.
- 137 active cases - plus 8
- 19 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - plus 4
- 257 variant cases - plus 6
- 3,585 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 29
- 59 deaths - no change
- 3,389 recoveries - plus 21
- 3,448 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 96.1% of cases
- 4 outbreaks - minus 2
Status in Halton
- 505 active cases - plus 26
- 48 cases in hospitals across Halton - plus 6
- 890 variant cases - plus 38
- 11,314 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 93
- 200 deaths - no change
- 10,609 recoveries - plus 67
- 10,809 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 95.5% of cases
- 19 outbreaks - no change
Local schools update
- 28 active cases in Oakville - no change
- 89 active cases in Halton - no change
- 56 Halton classrooms closed - no change
Note: Halton Region's recovery count is combined into one number with probable, now closed cases. This total includes some cases that were not coronavirus recoveries.
Ontario COVID-19 update - NO UPDATE on Sunday, April 5.
- Ontario's third province-wide shutdown begins today for a minimum of four-weeks
- New cases in the province have been over 3,000 both yesterday and today (3,089 and 3,009 respectively)
- Hospitalizations in Ontario have dropped by nearly 400 just today with no explanation from the province
- New modelling from Dr. David Williams and Dr. Adelsteinn Brown shows how lockdowns in Ontario are necessary to mitigate growth
- Active cases in Ontario have more than doubled in the last three weeks
- More than one-quarter (25.7%) of schools in Ontario have at least one active case of COVID-19
- The province's ICUs now have more COVID-19 patients than ever before; 451 in all
- The seven-day rolling average is now 2,552 daily cases; an increase from 1,944 one week ago
Changes are from yesterday’s figures. Information released as of April 3, 2021 for the end of yesterday.
- 23,190 active cases - plus 2,315
- 796 people hospitalized - minus 366
- 2.10 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine (14.27% of pop.)
- 2.42 million vaccine doses administered
- 358,558 confirmed cases - plus 6,098
- 327,940 recovered cases - plus 3,744
- 7,428 deaths - plus 39
- 335,368 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 93.5%
- 59,117 tests conducted, coming back 5% positive (one-day)
- 451 people in ICU - plus 18
- 261 people on ventilators - plus 2
- 143 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - plus 5
Summary of variants of concern (VOC)
- 2,042 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant - plus 89
- 70 confirmed cases of B.1.351 variant - plus 3
- 102 confirmed cases of P.1 variant - plus 6
- 24,459 cases with unknown, confirmed mutations - plus 2,088
Summary of school cases and outbreaks
- 2,487 cases reported in the last two weeks - plus 106
- 1,240 schools with at least one active case (25.7%) - plus 41
- 63 schools closed (1.3%) - no change
Canadian COVID-19 updates
- Only Quebec and Nova Scotia will be providing updates on Easter Sunday, April 4.
- 14.722% of Canadians have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine
- Pfizer-BioNTech moves a delivery of five million vaccine doses to Canada up two months; the late summer delivery will now arrive in June 2021
Changes in Canadian figures are since the last Oakville News update, April 1, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 57,286 active cases - plus 7,184
- 2,598 people hospitalized - minus 3
- 6.29 million vaccine doses administered - plus 110,000
- 1,009,305 million confirmed and suspected cases to date
- 23,040 deaths - plus 32
- 805 people in critical condition
- 928,979 recoveries - plus 3,079
Sources:
- Halton Region (and halton.ca/covid19)
- Halton Healthcare
- The Government of Ontario dashboard
- Government of Canada
- N. Little. COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker Canada (2020), COVID19Tracker.ca
- Centre for Disease Control
- World Health Organization
However you celebrate this weekend, please take health measures into consideration, staying at home or outdoors and ONLY with members of your immediate household. Happy Easter!
