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This is the Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 coronavirus update. Active cases are down in Oakville but higher across the rest of Halton Region for the fourth day in a row. Six schools in Halton now report an open outbreak of COVID-19 with multiple cases, and four of them are private schools.
The case reproduction number in Halton (how many cases become new cases) has been rising for weeks, and is now at 1.15. Halton appointments begin today of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5-11. Doses are one-third the size of an adult dose and are more than 90% effective.
Ontario has over 900 new cases today; that's the highest one-day total in nearly three months. The number of active cases is up by hundreds, plus hospitalizations and ICU cases are also up today. 1 in 7 schools in Ontario have one or more open cases of COVID-19, and more than 1,500 new cases have been reported from schools in the last two weeks.
Canada reached an exciting vaccine milestone of 30 million Canadians now fully vaccinated. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has updated their guidelines for mask wearing, now recommending medical masks or respirators "for people who are at risk of more severe disease or outcomes from COVID-19."
The Global community is acting quickly and decisively in responding to the new B.1.1.529 variant of concern, now named Omicron by the World Health Organization. An emergency meeting was held this morning to discuss new measures, and Canada has enacted travel restrictions to and from several countries in southern Africa.
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**Vaccine booking update: Halton is now booking first and second dose vaccinations for all residents age 5 and older, plus third dose boosters for some groups. All appointments in Halton need to be pre-booked.
All vaccines approved for use in Canada effectively protect you against COVID-19 and all known variants of concern.
Note: Oakville News updates are published six days a week, sharing new Halton data from Tuesday to Friday and Ontario, Canada, and globally Monday through Saturday.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
- Booking is now open for children 5-11 to receive the Pfizer vaccine in Halton, with the first appointments taking place later today
- For the fourth day in a row, active cases are down in Oakville and higher other parts in Halton
- The case reproduction number in Halton (how many cases become new cases) has risen again, now at 1.15
- Six Halton schools have open COVID-19 outbreaks
- Over 90% of all COVID-19 cases in Halton since September 1, 2021 have been in unvaccinated residents
- The GO-VAXX bus is in Oakville every day this week for walk-up appointments
Summary of local vaccinations
- 86% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 89% of those eligible have received at least one dose
- 900,762 vaccine doses have been administered - plus 454
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 25, 2021.
- 40 active cases - minus 1
- No patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - minus 1
- 6,395 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 10
- 69 deaths - no change
- 6,286 recoveries - plus 11
- 6,355 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.3% of cases
- 1 active outbreak - no change
Status in Halton
- 134 active cases - plus 1
- 6 cases in hospitals across Halton - minus 3
- 20,343 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 35
- 244 deaths - plus 1
- 19,965 recoveries - plus 33
- 20,209 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.3% of cases
- 9 active outbreaks - plus 2
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 - 9 total cases across 6 different schools
- Halton - 27 total cases across 20 different schools
Ontario COVID-19 update
- Ontario has over 900 new cases today; the highest one-day total in nearly three months
- The number of active cases is up by hundreds
- 1 in 7 schools in Ontario have at least one open case of COVID-19, up by hundreds of new cases this week
- More than 1,500 new cases have been reported from schools in the last two weeks
- Ontario's set vaccination target is 90% of the eligible population to be fully protected
- 79.62% of all eligible Ontarians (age 5 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 11.62 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (78.42% of total pop.)
- At least 11.24 million people are fully vaccinated (75.80% of total pop.)
- 22.86 million first and second vaccine doses administered - plus 19,800
Changes are from figures in our last update. The province released this information on Nov. 26, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 5,807 active cases - plus 255
- 268 people hospitalized - plus 11
- 615,197 confirmed cases - plus 927
- 599,399 recovered cases - plus 666
- 9,991 deaths - plus 6
- 609,390 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.0%
- 33,901 tests were conducted with a positive rate of 3.0%
- 140 people in ICU - plus 3
- 86 people on ventilators - minus 1
- 26 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - minus 3
Summary of School Cases
- 7,095 total cases in schools - plus 141
- 6,296 student cases - plus 132
- 688 staff cases - plus 7
- 712 schools with confirmed cases - 14.7% of those in Ontario
- 17 schools closed - plus 1
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
- 30 million Canadians are now fully vaccinated
- The World Health Organization had an emergency meeting today to discuss measures against the new B.1.1.529 variant of concern, or Omicron
- The Public Health Agency of Canada has updated their guidelines for mask wearing protection
- Beginning Nov. 30, COVID-19 testing will no longer be required for fully vaccinated Canadians returning to Canada via the land border
- In response to Omicron, dozens of countries have stopped all non-essential travel to southern Africa
- 79.59% of all eligible Canadians (age 5 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of national vaccinations
- 30.21 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (79.00% of total pop.)
- At least 30.03 million people are fully vaccinated (75.68% of total pop.)
- 60.24 million first and second vaccine doses administered - plus 70,400
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Nov. 25, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 27,029 active cases - plus 241
- 1,588 active hospitalizations - minus 32
- 1.77 million confirmed cases to date
- 1.72 million recoveries - plus 1,801
- 29,606 deaths - plus 17
- Ranked 83rd in global deaths per capita at 78.61 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 47.91 million cumulative cases
- 773,779 deaths - plus 2,889
- 62.8% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated (age 5 and up)
- Ranked 19th in global deaths per capita at 234.93 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 259.50 million cases - plus 611,000
- 5.18 million people have died worldwide
- At least 7.85 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)
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