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This is the Thursday, November 18, 2021 coronavirus update. Oakville's active cases have more than doubled in the last four days. There is a large number of new cases both in Oakville and Halton today - more than half of the regional total comes from just Oakville, which continues to be the least vaccinated municipality in the region.
There are high new cases across the province too: Ontario added more than 700 new cases today for the first time since mid-September. The seven-day average of new cases has increased 50% in the last month and hospitalizations have more than doubled since Monday this week.
In national news, changes are likely coming soon about mandatory testing for travel between Canada and the United States, with a possible announcement this Friday. Both Moderna and Pfizer are still waiting on approval from Health Canada for use of its vaccines in children ages 6-11.
1.75 million Canadians have cumulatively got COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The cumulative recovery rate for Canada reached 1.7 million people this morning.
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Note: Oakville News updates are published five days a week, sharing new Halton data from Tuesday to Friday and Ontario, Canada, and globally Tuesday through Saturday.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
- Oakville's active cases have more than doubled in the last four days
- Halton Region also reports a large increase in active cases today; driven by high new cases
- The case reproduction number in Halton (how many cases become new cases) is 1.05
- Halton Region's vaccination percentage has increased less than 1% this month
- Over 90% of all COVID-19 cases in Halton since September 1, 2021 have been in unvaccinated residents
Summary of local vaccinations
- 86% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 88% of those eligible have received at least one dose
- 898,917 vaccine doses have been administered - plus 401
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 17, 2021.
- 47 active cases - plus 7
- 1 patient at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - no change
- 6,350 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 13
- 69 deaths - no change
- 6,234 recoveries - plus 6
- 6,303 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.3% of cases
- No active outbreaks - no change
Status in Halton
- 97 active cases - plus 12
- 7 cases in hospitals across Halton - minus 1
- 20,179 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 25
- 243 deaths - no change
- 19,839 recoveries - plus 13
- 20,082 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.5% of cases
- 2 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.
School cases
- Oakville - 5 total cases across 4 different schools
- Halton - 28 total cases across 17 different schools
Ontario COVID-19 update
- Ontario adds more than 700 new cases today for the first time in almost two months
- Pharmacies in Ontario will soon be allowed to provide COVID-19 testing to symptomatic patients
- Hospitalizations have more than doubled this week; 65% of these patients are unvaccinated
- The provincial COVID-19 science advisory table has released modelling for growing cases and hospitalizations through the rest of 2021
- The seven-day average of new cases has increased 50% in the last four weeks
- Ontario has set a vaccination target: 90% of the eligible population fully protected
- 85.73% of all eligible Ontarians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 11.58 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (78.13% of total pop.)
- At least 11.18 million people are fully vaccinated (75.39% of total pop.)
- 22.76 million vaccine doses administered - plus 13,800
Changes are from figures in our last update. The province released this information on Nov. 18, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 4,872 active cases - plus 131
- 278 people hospitalized - plus 4
- 609,429 confirmed cases - plus 711
- 594,602 recovered cases - plus 575
- 9,955 deaths - plus 5
- 604,557 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.1%
- 34,347 tests were conducted with a positive rate of 2.0%
- 129 people in ICU - minus 4
- 78 people on ventilators - plus 1
- 30 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - no change
Summary of variants of concern (VOC)
These numbers are for the number of people who tested positive, and further testing has confirmed their specific case is one of a particular variant of concern in Ontario.
Note: these figures have not been updated by the province in three days. These are as of Monday, Nov. 15, and will be updated again when the information is available.
- 146,509 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant
- 1,503 confirmed cases of Beta variant
- 5,231 confirmed cases of Gamma variant
- 22,753 confirmed cases of Delta variant
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
- Moderna and Pfizer are waiting on approval from Health Canada for use of its vaccines for children age 6-11
- Cumulative Canadian cases stand at 1.75 million, cumulative recoveries is at 1.7 million
- Possible changes are coming in the next two weeks regarding testing requirements for travel between Canada and the United States
- British Columbia declares a state of emergency over mudslides; not COVID-19
- 85.94% of all eligible Canadians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of national vaccinations
- 30.11 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (78.72% of total pop.)
- At least 29.69 million people are fully vaccinated (75.24% of total pop.)
- 59.80 million first and second vaccine doses administered - plus 76,100
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 17, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 26,104 active cases - plus 845
- 1,738 active hospitalizations - plus 18
- 1.75 million confirmed cases to date
- 1.70 million recoveries - plus 2,029
- 29,442 deaths - plus 18
- Ranked 82nd in global deaths per capita at 78.17 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 47.24 million cumulative cases
- 762,994 deaths - plus 2,728
- 58.9% of the total population is fully vaccinated
- Ranked 19th in global deaths per capita at 232.48 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 254.84 million cases - plus 590,000
- 5.12 million people have died worldwide
- At least 7.59 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)
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