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This is the Oakville Coronavirus August 11th Update. Oakville has three new cases and no recoveries, causing Halton's recovery rate to fall below 95% again. Ontario has its lowest day of cases since mid-March. Canada surpasses 120,000 cases as the world surpasses 20 million confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Note: New Oakville figures are released Monday to Friday, while Ontario and Global updates also come Saturdays.
Oakville Coronavirus August 11th Update
- Oakville reports three more new cases and no recoveries
- Halton's recovery rate falls below 95% again due to Oakville's rising cases
- Schools and boards prepare for a September opening
- Halton public school students have until Aug. 17th to confirm enrolment Halton's school boards release the back to school plans: HDSB & HCDSB
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Oakville
Plus or minus figures are from the last Oakville News update, August 10, 2020. Case information released on August 11, 2020 at 12:50 PM for the end of day of August 11, 2020.
- Confirmed cases in Oakville is 280 - plus 3
- Past probable cases in Oakville is 28 - no change
- Confirmed and probable cases total is 308 - plus 3
- Total Deaths: 3 - no change
- Recoveries: 293 (95.1% of all cases, see below note) - no change
- Completed cases (recoveries and deaths): 296 (96.0% of cases)
- No cases in OTMH - no change
- 12 possible active cases - plus 3
Status in Halton:
- 930 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 4
- 880 recovered cases (94.6% of all cases, see note below) - no change
- 25 deaths (12 related to institutions - 48%) - no change
- 25 active cases - plus 4
Note: Halton Region's counted recoveries are combined into one number with probable, now resolved cases. This number includes some cases that were not recoveries from COVID-19.
Ontario COVID-19 Update
- Ontario reports only 33 new cases today
- That's the lowest daily number since March 18 - 146 days ago Part of the low number is Toronto reversing 21 previously labelled Covid cases
- No deaths reported in Ontario for third straight day
- Windsor-Essex moves to Stage 3 tomorrow
- This is the last region in the province to begin Stage 3 Windsor was the only region yesterday with 10+ cases
- Provincial hospitalization numbers still fluctuating
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Ontario
Plus or minus figures are tabulated from yesterday's figures. Information released as of August 11, 2020 at 9:45 AM for the end of day August 10, 2020.
- 40,194 confirmed cases - plus 33
- 36,456 recovered cases, 90.7% of all cases - plus 75
- 2,786 deaths, 6.9% of those confirmed cases - no change
- 39,242 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 97.6%
- 21,581 tests performed
- 60 people hospitalized - plus 11
- 21 people in ICU - minus 4
- 12 people on Ventilators - minus 2
Summary of Institutional Outbreaks:
Long Term Care Homes, Retirement Homes, Hospitals
- 675 total outbreaks reported - no change
- 58 active, ongoing outbreaks - no change
Canada and Global COVID-19 Update
- Quebec finally reports its two day backlog of recoveries, adding 2,155 to the total
- Canada reaches 120,000 total cases
- 90% of which are recoveries
- The United States' infections continue rising
- But at a rate 18% slower than two weeks ago
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Canada
Numbers are different from Oakville News' last update on August 10, 2020. Information released as of August 11, 2020 at 11:20 AM.
- Confirmed and suspected cases is 120,256 - plus 294
- 8,988 deaths - plus 7
- 106,542 recoveries - plus 2,978*
- (Includes two weeks of unreported data from Quebec)
- 115,530 resolved cases (96.1% of all cases)
- Canada remains 24th on the global cases list
Figures Around the World:
- Total number of cases Globally - 20.1 million
- Deaths - 736,500+
- Total United States cases - 5.1 million (25.4% worldwide)
- Deaths - 163,000+ (22.1% worldwide) Top 3 states with increasing cases (per capita) are Florida, Arizona and Texas
Top five highest countries of infections and their case increase in last seven days:
- United States - 5.1 million (+376,000)
- Brazil - 3.05 million (+308,000)
- India - 2.27 million (+413,000)
- Russia - 895,000 (+36,000)
- South Africa - 563,500 (+47,000)
The five most infectious countries (per 100,000) are Qatar, Bahrain, Chile, Panama and Kuwait.