July 6, 2021 coronavirus update for Oakville

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This is the Tuesday, July 6, 2021 coronavirus update. Active cases are down today in Oakville and Halton, but Burlington adds two more hospitalizations and two more deaths - the first in almost a month. 

More than ten million Ontarians have now received one or more vaccine doses, while Canada totals more than 40 million administered doses to date. Provincial testing has its highest day in two weeks, but in great news, only 1.1% of those tests are coming back positive.

Fully vaccinated Canadians can now return home from international travel with quarantining, while communities across Canada and the USA are being urged to get vaccinated now to stop the Delta variant's spread.

**Vaccine booking update: Halton is now booking and rebooking first AND second dose vaccinations for all residents, regardless of when your first dose appointment once. Halton is now in general booking for everyone age 12 and older for first and second doses.

The wait time between the first and second doses of mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) is 28 days. The NACI of Canada recommends those who got a first AstraZeneca dose get a second dose of an mRNA vaccine.

**CLICK HERE to book or re-book a first or second vaccination appointment at a Halton Region vaccine clinic**

Note: Oakville figures, including Halton vaccine updates, are updated Monday to Friday. Ontario and global cases are also updated on Saturdays. 

Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update

  • Active cases are down today in Oakville and Halton
  • Halton reports its first death in more than a month from a delta variant driven long-term care home outbreak at the Village of Tansley Woods
  • Two more hospitalizations and deaths are reported from Burlington
  • Both of Oakville's active outbreaks are at undisclosed workplaces

Summary of local vaccinations

  • 44% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
  • 79% have received at least one dose
  • 623,138 vaccine doses administered - plus 8,070

Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on July 5, 2021, because Halton no longer updates COVID-19 numbers on weekends.

  • 18 active cases - minus 1
  • 1 patient at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - no change
  • 5,657 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 2
  • 67 deaths - no change
  • 5,572 recoveries - plus 3
  • 5,639 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.6% of cases
  • 1,815 variant cases - plus 1
  • 2 active outbreaks - no change

Status in Halton

  • 63 active cases - minus 2
  • 6 cases in hospitals across Halton - plus 2
  • 18,031 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 4
  • 231 deaths - no change
  • 17,737 recoveries - plus 6
  • 17,968 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.6% of cases 
  • 5,991 variant cases - plus 8
  • 3 active outbreaks - no change

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

  • More than ten million Ontarians have now received one or more vaccine doses
  • Youth age 12 to 17 can now book accelerated second vaccination appointments province-wide
  • Ontario hospitalizations report a large increase today in a likely one-day spike
  • Testing has its highest day in two weeks
  • 77.61% of all eligible Ontarians (age 12 and older) have received one or more vaccine doses

Summary of provincial vaccinations

  • 10.03 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (67.87% of pop.)
  • At least 5.88 million people are fully vaccinated (39.78%)
  • 15.92 million vaccine doses administered - plus 215,000

Changes are from yesterday’s figures. The province released the information on July 6, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.

  • 1,883 active cases - minus 84
  • 202 people hospitalized - plus 47
  • 546,217 confirmed cases - plus 244
  • 535,110 recovered cases - plus 319
  • 9,215 deaths - plus 9
  • 544,325 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.6%
  • 28,755 tests conducted with a positive rate of 1.1% 
  • 168 people in ICU (that are COVID-19 positive) - minus 2
  • 124 people on ventilators (COVID-19 positive) - no change
  • 14 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - no change

Note: There have been recent discrepancies with ICU and hospitalization numbers in Ontario; some days, the number of people in hospital is less than that of those in hospital, 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)

  • 143,989 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant - plus 34
  • 1,415 confirmed cases of Beta variant - no change
  • 4,632 confirmed cases of Gamma variant - no change
  • 2,049 confirmed cases of Delta variant -  plus 8

Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates

Summary of national vaccinations

  • 25.98 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (68.15% of pop.)
  • At least 14.20 million people are fully vaccinated (37.23%)
  • 40.18 million vaccine doses administered - plus 602,000

Changes in Canadian figures are since the last Oakville News update on July 5, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)

  • 5,519 active cases - minus 451
  • 744 active hospitalizations - plus 30
  • 1.41 million confirmed and suspected cases to date
  • 1.38 million recoveries - plus 665
  • 26,381 deaths - plus 18
  • Ranked 66th in global deaths per capita at 70.01 per 100,000 people

US COVID-19 Update

  • 33.53 million cumulative cases
  • 603,018 deaths 
  • 54.9% of people have one dose (64.1% of those age 12+ who are eligible)
  • 47.3% are fully vaccinated (55.4% of those eligible)
  • Ranked 21st in global deaths per capita at 184.48 per 100,000 people

World COVID-19 Update

  • 183.56 million cases 
  • 3.97 million people have died worldwide
  • At least 3.22 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)

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