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COVID-19 Update Oakville
This is the Tuesday, November 2, 2021 coronavirus update. There are no longer any active outbreaks at schools in Oakville, and active cases are down today. Halton adds one new case and has only one person in hospital.
Halton Regional Health approximates that in the last month, the risk of contracting COVID-19 has been nine times higher in unvaccinated residents than vaccinated ones, while the risk of hospitalization is 28 times higher for the unvaccinated. The region also reports more than 90% of all COVID-19 cases in Halton since September 1, 2021 have been in unvaccinated residents.
The total number of Halton residents who've received their first dose of vaccine has increased by less than 1.5% in the month of October. Oakville remains the least vaccinated municipality in Halton.
More than 11 million Ontarians are now fully vaccinated. There have now been over 600,000 cumulative cases in Ontario since the pandemic began, and almost 100 new patients were admitted to hospital across the province today.
Canada continues making progress in its vaccination efforts, with the percent of Ontario's and Canada's eligible populations of those fully vaccinated matching today for the first time.
The United States' Food and Drug administration has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use in children ages 5-11. If the CDC signs off on it, first doses could be available within days, making the USA the first country to authorize a vaccine for children.
Global deaths surpassed five million people yesterday, with total infections to date worldwide approaching 250 million people.
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**Vaccine booking update: Halton is now booking first AND second dose vaccinations for all residents age 12 and older. Halton also offers same-day, walk-in appointments at multiple locations.
All vaccines approved for use in Canada effectively protect you against COVID-19 and all known variants of concern, including the Delta variant.
**CLICK HERE to book a first or second vaccination appointment at a Halton Region vaccine clinic**
Note: Oakville News updates are published six days a week, sharing new Halton data from Monday to Friday and Ontario, Canada, and globally Monday through Saturday.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
- There are no longer any active outbreaks at schools in Oakville
- Halton Regional Health approximates that in the last month, the risk of contracting COVID-19 has been nine times higher in unvaccinated residents than vaccinated ones, while the risk of hospitalization is 28 times higher for the unvaccinated
- Only case hospital case remains in all of Halton (at Georgetown Hospital)
- More than 90% of all COVID-19 cases in Halton since September 1, 2021 have been in unvaccinated residents
- Oakville remains the least vaccinated municipality in Halton Region
Summary of local vaccinations
- 85% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 88% have received at least one dose
- 892,269 vaccine doses have been administered - plus 334
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 1, 2021.
- 31 active cases - minus 1
- No patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - minus 1
- 6,251 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 4
- 69 deaths - no change
- 6,151 recoveries - plus 5
- 6,220 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.5% of cases
- No active outbreaks - minus 1
Status in Halton
- 77 active cases - plus 1
- 1 case in hospitals across Halton - no change
- 19,993 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 12
- 243 deaths - no change
- 19,613 recoveries - plus 11
- 19,856 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.6% of cases
- 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.
School cases
- Oakville - 3 total cases across 3 different schools
- Halton - 16 total cases across 12 different schools
Ontario COVID-19 update
- Ontario's active cases are down today, breaking a five-day streak of increases
- There have now been over 600,000 cumulative cases in Ontario since the pandemic began
- More than 11 million people in Ontario are now fully vaccinated
- The province has released a plan to "gradually phase out public health and workplace safety measures" by March 2022
- Ontario has set a vaccination target: 90% of the eligible population fully protected
- 84.61% of all eligible Ontarians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 11.50 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (77.59% of total pop.)
- At least 11.03 million people are fully vaccinated (74.40% of total pop.)
- 22.53 million vaccine doses administered - plus 13,700
Changes are from figures in our last update. The province released this information on Nov. 2, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 3,100 active cases - minus 59
- 230 people hospitalized - plus 96
- 600,708 confirmed cases - plus 331
- 587,727 recovered cases - plus 383
- 9,881 deaths - plus 7
- 597,608 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.6%
- 20,148 tests were conducted with a positive rate of 1.5%
- 136 people in ICU - plus 4
- 84 people on ventilators - minus 2
- 11 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - minus 1
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.
- 146,511 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant - plus 4
- 1,503 confirmed cases of Beta variant - no change
- 5,231 confirmed cases of Gamma variant - no change
- 21,204 confirmed cases of Delta variant - plus 59
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
- Canada's active cases are mostly unchanged in the last three days
- America's Food and Drug administration has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use in children ages 5-11, and the first doses have been shipped, awaiting CDC approval for use
- The USA will re-open its land and border with Canada to fully vaccinated travellers beginning next Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 (including those with mixed doses), ending a nearly 20-month closure
- The USA also also confirmed the land border will accept Canadians at the land borders next week for non-essential leisure travel (so long as they are fully vaccinated and show proof at entry)
- Over five million people have now died from COVID-19 - while that is the official count from the WHO, the actual total is believed by many scientists to be much higher
- 84.61% of all eligible Canadians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of national vaccinations
- 29.87 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (78.10% of total pop.)
- At least 28.93 million people are fully vaccinated (74.07% of total pop.)
- 58.79 million vaccine doses administered - plus 92,800
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 1, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 25,160 active cases - minus 104
- 1,966 active hospitalizations - plus 42
- 1.71 million confirmed cases to date
- 1.66 million recoveries - plus 1,275
- 29,041 deaths - plus 54
- Ranked 81st in global deaths per capita at 77.10 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 46.02 million cumulative cases
- 745,274 deaths - plus 1,301
- 58.1% are fully vaccinated (67.9% of those eligible)
- Ranked 17th in global deaths per capita at 226.47 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 246.95 million cases - plus 347,000
- 5.01 million people have died worldwide
- At least 6.98 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)
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