Oakville News
This is the Oakville Coronavirus August 19th Update. Oakville adds one new recovery as Halton changes their regional COVID-19 reporting system. Yesterday's new Ontario cases above age 40 surpass those under 39 for the first time since July. The USA reaches 5.5 million total cases.
Note: New Oakville figures are released Monday to Friday, while Ontario and Global updates also come Saturdays.
Oakville Coronavirus August 19th Update
- Oakville has no new cases and one recovery today
- Halton region is no longer providing timestamps on their daily updates
- All information tables are also being replaced by interactive online graphs Some of the new data (like Halton's total cases) are wrong
- The town issues new parking fines to slow crowds at downtown parks
- Parking will also increase starting this Friday
- A new documentary, One Pandemic Day, is about COVID-19 in Oakville
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Oakville
Plus or minus figures are from the last Oakville News update, August 18, 2020. Case information released on August 19, 2020 at 12:50 PM for the end of day of August 18, 2020.
- Confirmed cases in Oakville is 282 - no change
- Past probable cases in Oakville is 29 - no change
- Confirmed and probable cases total is 311 - no change
- Total Deaths: 3 - no change
- Recoveries: 298 (95.8% of all cases) - plus 1
- Completed cases (recoveries+deaths): 301 (96.8% of cases)
- No cases in OTMH - no change
- 10 possible active cases - minus 1
Status in Halton:
- 945 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 2
- 892 recovered cases (94.4% of all cases) - plus 3
- 25 deaths (12 related to institutions - 48%) - no change
- 28 active cases - minus 1
- Zero cases in hospital
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
- Resolutions (recoveries + deaths) in Ontario pass 40,000
- New cases outnumber provincial recoveries for fourth day in a row
- 70% of new cases are in Toronto, Brampton and Ottawa 10% of cases are residents and staff at long term care homes
- Made-in-Ontario physician scheduling in the fight against COVID-19 gets boost
- New cases above age 40 again larger than 39 and under
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Ontario
Plus or minus figures are tabulated from yesterday's figures. Information released as of August 19, 2020 at 10:00 AM for the end of day August 18, 2020.
- 40,972 confirmed cases - plus 102
- 37,215 recovered cases, 90.8% of all cases - plus 89
- 2,792 deaths, 6.9% of those confirmed cases - minus 1
- 40,007 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 97.7%
- 25,642 completed tests
- 42 people hospitalized - plus 1
- 15 people in ICU - no change
- 10 people on ventilators - no change
Summary of Institutional Outbreaks:
Long Term Care Homes, Retirement Homes, Hospitals
- 680 total outbreaks reported - plus 1
- 24 active, ongoing outbreaks - minus 3
Canada and Global COVID-19 Update
- The University of Toronto is opening an Institution for Pandemics
- The Canada/USA border closure is extended again until at least September 21, 2020
- British Columbia and Manitoba experience a second wave of cases
- Canada's total active cases still going down
- The United States reaches 5.5 million cases
- Will reach 6 million by the end of August
Status of COVID-19 Cases in Canada
Numbers are different from Oakville News' last update on August 18, 2020. Information released as of August 19, 2020 at 12:45 PM.
- Confirmed and suspected cases is 123,321 - plus 167
- 4,673 active cases (3.8% of all cases)
- 9,046 deaths - plus 4
- 109,602 recoveries - plus 294
- 118,648 resolved cases (96.2% of all cases)
- Canada remains 24th on the global cases list
Figures Around the World:
- Total number Global of cases - 22.22 million
- Deaths - 782,000+
- Total United States cases - 5.5 million (24.8% worldwide)
- Deaths - 172,000+ (21.9% worldwide) Top 3 states with the fastest rising cases are California, Texas and Florida
Top five highest countries of infections and their case increase in last seven days:
- United States - 5.5 million (+343,500)
- Brazil - 3.4 million (+297,000)
- India - 2.76 million (+435,000)
- Russia - 935,000 (+34,500)
- South Africa - 592,000 (+26,000)
The next five highest infected countries are Peru, Mexico, Columbia, Chile and Spain.
