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This is the Friday, August 13, 2021 coronavirus update. Active cases in both Oakville and in Halton Region have doubled in the last ten days. These are the fastest and largest local daily increases since mid-April 2021.
More than 400,000 people in Halton, as of today, are fully vaccinated. But at the current rate of vaccine uptake, with only a few hundred people of those who still haven't finally getting a shot, we're still months away from reaching Halton's target of 90% of the eligible population being fully vaccinated.
Sources from both Health Canada and Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table have confirmed the province and country as a whole is now in a fourth wave of the pandemic. Canada is going to donate millions of Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses.
A more optimistic statistic, Ontario has administered more than 20 million vaccine doses. Meanwhile, federal data shows that almost 90% of all new COVID-19 cases are among the unvaccinated, highlighting the importance of continued vaccination campaigns. It is imperative that more people get vaccinated to stop the rising case numbers.
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**Vaccine booking update: Halton is now booking first AND second dose vaccinations for all residents age 12 and older. Halton is also now offering same-day, walk-in appointments at multiple locations.
All vaccines approved for use in Canada are highly effective in protecting you against COVID-19 and all known variants of concern, including the Delta variant.
Note: Oakville figures, including Halton vaccine updates, are again being published seven days a week. Effective August 9, 2021, Oakville News will share Halton's new data from Monday to Friday and Ontario, Canada and global updates daily.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
- Active cases in both Oakville and in Halton Region have doubled in the last ten days
- More than 400,000 people in Halton, as of today, are fully vaccinated
- Halton residents between ages 20 to 39 aren't just leading new cases: it's also the least vaccinated age group
- An unnamed day camp in Milton reports an outbreak with nine COVID-19 cases and counting
- A local writer makes their case for the immediate implementation of vaccine passports
Summary of local vaccinations
- 75% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 83% have received at least one dose
- 812,630 vaccine doses have been administered - plus 2,051
Changes in figures are since the last Oakville News update yesterday on August 12, 2021.
- 30 active cases - plus 4
- 2 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - plus 1
- 5,742 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 11
- 67 deaths - no change
- 5,645 recoveries - plus 7
- 5,712 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.6% of cases
- 1,854 variant cases - plus 2
- No active outbreaks
Status in Halton
- 109 active cases - plus 8
- 5 cases in hospitals across Halton - plus 1
- 18,374 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 22
- 237 deaths - no change
- 18,028 recoveries - plus 14
- 18,265 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.6% of cases
- 6,139 variant cases - plus 18
- 3 active outbreaks - minus 1
Note: Halton Region combines its recovery count into one number with probable, now closed cases. This total includes some cases that were not coronavirus recoveries. Halton Region does not publish the names of workplaces with active outbreaks.
Ontario COVID-19 update
- Provincial active cases are back above 3,000
- Ontario's reproduction number for new cases is now 1.55, meaning cases are doubling every 8-11 days (and in fact, in the last eight days they have)
- Ontario confirms its 6,000th cumulative case of the Delta variant
- In a more optimistic statistic, Ontario has administered more than 20 million vaccine doses
- 81.98% of all eligible Ontarians (age 12 and older) have received one or more doses of vaccine
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 10.60 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (71.69% of total pop.)
- At least 9.49 million people are fully vaccinated (64.19%)
- 20.09 million vaccine doses administered - plus 48,600
Changes are from figures over the last two days. The province released this information on August 13, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 3,110 active cases - plus 2,242
- 123 people hospitalized - plus 7
- 554,472 confirmed cases - plus 510
- 541,946 recovered cases - plus 264
- 9,416 deaths - plus 4
- 551,362 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.4%
- 23,586 tests conducted with a positive rate of 2.0%
- 82 people in ICU (that are COVID-19 positive) - minus 1
- 49 people on ventilators (COVID-19 positive) - minus 4
- 7 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - no change
Note: There have been discrepancies with ICU and hospitalization numbers in Ontario for almost two months; some days, the number of people in hospital is less than that of those in the ICU, which is impossible.
The aggressively fluctuating numbers of patients in hospitals are likely the cause, with those in ICU easier to track province-wide. Until the province resolves these errors, Oakville News reports only on ICU and ventilator patients still testing positive for COVID-19 and not those recovering from the virus but still in ICU care.
Summary of variants of concern (VOC)
- 145,656 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant - plus 15
- 1,493 confirmed cases of Beta variant - no change
- 5,176 confirmed cases of Gamma variant - no change
- 6,019 confirmed cases of Delta variant - plus 146
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
- Almost 90% of all new COVID-19 cases are among the unvaccinated
- Canadian hospitalizations have risen by over 100 patients this week
- The federal government says a vaccine passport for international travel will be ready by "early fall"
- Canada is going to donate millions of Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses
- 82.37% of all eligible Canadians (age 12 and older) have received one or more doses of vaccine
Summary of national vaccinations
- 27.34 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (71.72% of total pop.)
- At least 23.90 million people are fully vaccinated (62.68%)
- 51.25 million vaccine doses administered - plus 153,000
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on August 12, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 15,287 active cases - plus 1,144
- 577 active hospitalizations - plus 23
- 1.44 million confirmed and suspected cases to date
- 1.40 million recoveries - plus 944
- 26,697 deaths - plus 6
- Ranked 72nd in global deaths per capita at 70.81 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 36.26 million cumulative cases
- 617,096 deaths - plus 637
- 59.2% of people have one dose (69.2% of those age 12+ who are eligible)
- 50.4% are fully vaccinated (59.0% of those eligible)
- Ranked 22nd in global deaths per capita at 187.92 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 203.64 million cases
- 4.32 million people have died worldwide
- At least 4.46 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data) - plus 38.57 million
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