Oakville Coronavirus August 4th Update

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This is the Oakville Coronavirus August 4th Update. Oakville reports the only 1 new case of COVID-19 in Halton Region from the last four days. Premier Ford says social bubbles will likely remain until 2021. Quebec hasn't reported recoveries for over a week due to a glitch.

Note: New Oakville figures are released Monday to Friday, while Ontario and Global updates also come Saturdays.

Oakville Coronavirus August 4th Update

  • Oakville report one new case in the last four days

  • This is the only new reported case in Halton Region
  • Oakville's confirmed and probable cases reach 300 since the beginning of the pandemic
  • Masks are required in most indoor spaces
  • Halton Region now reports new figures to province before releasing them publicly

  • Public release is regularly in afternoons now instead of morning
  • Halton's recovery rate surpasses 95%

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Oakville

Plus or minus figures are from last Friday's figures, July 31st, 2020. Case information released on August 4, 2020 at 1:10 PM for the end of day of August 3, 2020.

  • Confirmed cases in Oakville is 272 - plus 1
  • Probable cases in Oakville is 28 - no change
  • Confirmed and probable cases total is 300 - no change
  • Total Deaths: 3 - no change
  • Recoveries: 292 (97.3% of all cases, see below note) - plus 6
  • Completed Cases (recoveries and deaths): 295 (98.3% of cases)
  • 1 case in OTMH (includes non-Halton cases) - minus 1
  • 5 possible active cases - minus 5

Status in Halton:

  • 911 total cases (confirmed and probable) -  plus 1
  • 869 recovered (95.4% of all cases, see note below) - plus 7
  • 25 deaths (12 related to institutions - 48%) - no change
  • 17 active cases - minus 6

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

  • Long-term care homes are seeing second waves
  • Windsor-Essex is remaining in Stage 2 and not moving to Stage 3
  • Brampton, now in Stage 3, seeing the largest daily case numbers of COVID-19

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Ontario

Plus or minus figures are tabulated from yesterday's figures. Information released as of August 4, 2020 at 9:45 AM for the end of day August 3, 2020.

  • 39,628 confirmed cases - plus 91
  • 35,601 recovered cases, 89.8% of all cases - plus 116
  • 2,782 deaths, 7.0% of those confirmed cases -  plus 4
  • 38,257 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 96.5%
  • 19,169 tests performed
  • 78 people hospitalized - plus 6
  • 28 people in ICU - plus 2
  • 15 people on Ventilators - plus 1

Summary of Institutional Outbreaks:

Long Term Care Homes, Retirement Homes, Hospitals

Canada and Global COVID-19 Update

  • Quebec has not reported recoveries in over a week due to a technical issue

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Canada

Numbers are different from Oakville News' last update on August 3, 2020. Information released as of August 4, 2020 at 11:30 AM.

  • Confirmed and suspected cases is 117,334 - plus 215
  • 8,953 deaths - plus 8
  • 101,844 recoveries - plus 270
  • 110,797 resolved cases (94.4% of all cases)
  • Canada is still at 22nd on the global cases list

Figures Around the World:

  • Total number of cases Globally - 18.35 million

  • Deaths - 695,500+
  • Total United States cases - 4.75 million (25.9% worldwide)

  • Deaths - 156,500+ (22.5% worldwide) The country's infection rate is beginning to slow again (down 10% last week) Top 5 states with rising cases are Texas, Florida, California, Georgia and Tennessee

Top five highest countries of infections and their case increase in last seven days:

  • United States - 4.75 million (+420,000)
  • Brazil - 2.75 million (+300,000)
  • India - 1.85 million (+372,000)
  • Russia - 860,000 (+38,000)
  • South Africa - 517,000 (+64,500)

The next five countries (in order of highest cases) are Mexico, Peru, Chile, Columbia and Iran.