Oakville Coronavirus August 8th Update

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This is the Oakville Coronavirus August 8th Update. Oakville prepares for schools to reopen in a few weeks. Ontario reports fewer than 100 cases every day this week. Quebec still isn't reporting recoveries and the United States will surpass 5 million cases later today.

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

Oakville Coronavirus August 8th Update

  • Halton public school students have until Aug. 17th to confirm enrolment
  • Halton Region now reports new figures to province before public release

  • Public release is regularly in afternoons now instead of morning

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Oakville

Plus or minus figures are the same as yesterday's figures, August 7, 2020. Case information released on August 7, 2020 at 12:35 PM for the end of day of August 6, 2020.

  • Confirmed cases in Oakville is 275 - plus 2
  • Past probable cases in Oakville is 28 - no change
  • Confirmed and probable cases total is 303 - plus 2
  • Total Deaths: 3 - no change
  • Recoveries: 292 (96.4% of all cases, see below note) - no change
  • Completed cases (recoveries and deaths): 295 (97.4% of cases)
  • No cases in OTMH - no change
  • 8 possible active cases - plus 2

Status in Halton:

  • 917 total cases (confirmed and probable) -  plus 4
  • 877 recovered (95.6% of all cases, see note below) - plus 6
  • 25 deaths (12 related to institutions - 48%) - no change
  • 15 active cases - minus 2

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

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Ontario

Plus or minus figures are tabulated from yesterday's figures. Information released as of August 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM for the end of day August 7, 2020.

  • 39,967 confirmed cases - plus 70
  • 36,131 recovered cases, 90.3% of all cases - plus 107
  • 2,784 deaths, 7.0% of those confirmed cases -  plus 1
  • 38,789 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 97.3%
  • 26,008 tests performed
  • 53 people hospitalized - minus 13
  • 27 people in ICU - minus 1
  • 12 people on Ventilators - no change

Summary of Institutional Outbreaks:

Long Term Care Homes, Retirement Homes, Hospitals

Canada and Global COVID-19 Update

  • Quebec still not reporting recoveries due to an unknown data error

Status of COVID-19 Cases in Canada

Numbers are different from Oakville News' last update on August 7, 2020. Information released as of August 8, 2020 at 12:50 AM.

  • Confirmed and suspected cases is 119,151 - plus 196
  • 8,976 deaths - plus 10
  • 103,542 recoveries - plus 320
  • 112,498 resolved cases (94.5% of all cases)
  • Canada remains 24th on the global cases list

Figures Around the World:

  • Total number of cases Globally - 19.4 million

  • Deaths - 720,500+
  • Total United States cases - 4.98 million (25.7% worldwide)

  • Deaths - 161,000+ (22.3% worldwide) Top 3 states with increasing cases (per capita) are Florida, Louisiana and Arizona

  • But the increase rate is down 10% from two weeks ago

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

  • United States - 4.98 million (+380,000)
  • Brazil - 2.96 million (+299,500)
  • India - 2.1 million (+395,000)
  • Russia - 880,000 (+37,000)
  • South Africa - 545,000 (+53,000)

The five most infectious countries (per capita) are Aruba, Maldives, Peru, Panama and Bahrain.