The Sunday, May 2, 2021, coronavirus update for Oakville records patients requiring hospital care increased, and the number of active cases increased in Oakville and Halton. Areas of concern for the region are: recording 136 new cases which are above a rolling-seven-day daily average of 132.7 cases per day, area hospitals are admitting three patients per day, testing positivity rate is 8.6%, and the percentage of new cases reached by a contact tracer is 78%.
Halton's number of new cases per 100,000 per week is 149.1, down 5.5% over the past two weeks. Ontario's is 176 down 9.6%.
Halton does not update vaccination numbers on Saturday and Sunday. However, as of Thursday, April 29, over 28,000 doses were administered by pharmacies or at a doctor's office. 38% of Halton's population has received at least one dose.
Variants of Concern are testing positive in Halton 79.3%, and in Ontario, it is 73.5%. The P.1 cumulative case numbers grew by 13% in one day. The increase of the B-117 variant accounts for 76.9% of new cases reported today.
Ontario's seven-day average daily new case count is 3,618 or 24.83 per 100,000.
The province's Effective Reproduction Number is below one at 0.93, and Halton's is 0.9.
In Ontario, active cases dropped by 238 to 37,200. Hospitalizations dropped by 191 to 1961, which is down 399 from the peak of 2,360 recorded on April 20. ICU admissions dropped and now 895, and those patients on ventilators decreased to 615 down 22 over the past day.
4.94 million Ontarians have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and over 12.65 million Canadians or 33.29%. The Canadian number is higher because Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut do not provide updates on Sundays.
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Update on vaccine appointments: Residents who meet several eligibility criteria can book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at a Halton Region COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic. These include high-risk health conditions, being pregnant, being a Group 1 essential worker, or over 60 years of age.
Halton vaccination information
Dozens of pharmacies in Oakville and Halton are now administering AstraZeneca vaccines for everyone age 40 and older. Book a pharmacy vaccination here.
Hot spot vaccination appointment bookings for 18 plus start Monday, May 3, Halton's only hot spot is in Milton - the postal code prefix is L9E.
Note: Oakville figures are updated seven days a week with Ontario and global cases. Halton vaccine updates are only Monday to Friday. There are no school updates since teaching returned online.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on May 1, 2021.
- 227 active cases - plus 10
- 42 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - plus 1
- 4,842 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 45
- 62 deaths - no change
- 4,553 recoveries - plus 35
- 4,615 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 95.3% of cases
- 1,172 variant cases - plus 26
- 8 outbreaks - no change
Status in Halton
- 866 active cases - plus 23
- 108 cases in hospitals across Halton - plus 6
- 192,900+ people have received at least one vaccine dose (38% of pop.) - no update
- 196,967 vaccine doses administered - plus 4,580 - no update
- 15,331 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 136
- 213 deaths - no change
- 14,252 recoveries - plus 113
- 14,465 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 94.3% of cases
- 3,841 variant cases - plus 73
- 34 outbreaks - minus 1
- 23 workplace 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 does not publish the names of workplaces with active outbreaks.
**CLICK HERE to book a vaccination appointment at a Halton Region vaccine clinic**
Ontario COVID-19 update
Changes are from yesterday’s figures. The province released the information on May 2, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 37,200 active cases - minus 238
- 1,961 people hospitalized - minus 191
- 4.94 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (33.59% of pop.)
- 5.32 million vaccine doses administered - plus 76,000
- 470,465 confirmed cases - plus 3,732
- 425,163 recovered cases - plus 3,947
- 8,102 deaths - plus 23
- 433,265 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 92.0%
- 45,301 tests conducted with a positive rate of 8.5%
- 895 people in ICU - minus 5
- 615 people on ventilators - minus 22
- 110 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - no change
Summary of variants of concern (VOC)
- 72,313 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant - plus 2,871
- 291 confirmed cases of B.1.351 variant - plus 10
- 875 confirmed cases of P.1 variant - plus 103
- 31,688 cases with unknown, confirmed mutations - plus 9
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
Please note: British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut do not update their statistics on Sundays.
Changes in Canadian figures are since the last Oakville News update of May 1, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 83,074 active cases - minus 652
- 12.65 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (33.29% of pop.)
- 13.78 million vaccine doses administered - plus 182,000
- 1.23 million confirmed and suspected cases to date
- 1.12 million recoveries
- 24,253 deaths - plus 47
- 4,050 active hospitalizations - minus 193
- Ranked 61st in global deaths per capita
US COVID-19 Update
- 32.14 million cases
- 573,012 deaths
- At least 243 million vaccine doses have been administered
World COVID-19 Update
- 151.803 million cases
- 3.186 million people have died worldwide
- At least 1.01 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide
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