This is the Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021 coronavirus update. Active cases are still going down today in Oakville and Halton after a 30% drop over Thanksgiving weekend. Hospitalizations are unchanged in Oakville, but Halton reports two recoveries.
It's a different story province-wide, however. Active cases are down in most health units but almost 100 new patients were admitted to hospital. ICU admissions and active outbreaks have both gone up every week so far in October.
The province has set a clear target for vaccinations: provincial government wants at least 90% of the eligible population vaccinated; currently, we are at 82.5%
A monumental announcement came from several American officials today: the land border between Canada and the USA will open for fully vaccinated travellers beginning in early November. The shared border has been closed to Canadians trying to enter to United States for more than a year and a half.
Canada is reporting more than 1.6 cumulative recoveries from COVID-19, but there are still nearly 40,000 active cases. Over 6.5 billion doses have been administered worldwide.
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Note: Oakville News updates are published six days a week, sharing new Halton data from Monday to Friday and Ontario, Canada, and globally Monday through Saturday.
Oakville and Halton COVID-19 update
- Halton has given its 880,000th dose
- Oakville reports a 30% drop in active cases over Thanksgiving weekend, attributing all but one of the recovered active cases in Halton
- Hospitalizations are unchanged in Oakville but down in Halton
- Only one open outbreak remains in Oakville: at St. Gregory the Great elementary school
Summary of local vaccinations
- 83% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 87% have received at least one dose
- 880,322 vaccine doses have been administered - plus 897
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Oct. 12, 2021.
- 26 active cases - minus 2
- 6 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - no change
- 6,158 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 3
- 68 deaths - no change
- 6,064 recoveries - plus 5
- 6,132 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.5% of cases
- 1 active outbreak - no change
Status in Halton
- 92 active cases - minus 2
- 13 cases in hospitals across Halton - minus 2
- 19,695 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 12
- 242 deaths - no change
- 19,361 recoveries - plus 14
- 19,603 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.5% of cases
- 3 active outbreaks - plus 1
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
- 10 Halton schools are reporting cases - plus 2
- 17 confirmed cases in Halton schools - plus 5
Ontario COVID-19 update
- Active cases are down by more than 200 cases for the second day in a row
- Ontario now allows several venues that require proof of vaccination can now operate at 100%
- Nearly 100 new hospitalizations are added today
- Ontario sets a target for vaccinations: 90% of the eligible population fully protected
- 82.50% of all eligible Ontarians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 11.36 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (76.63% of total pop.)
- At least 10.76 million people are fully vaccinated (72.55% of total pop.)
- 22.12 million vaccine doses administered - plus 29,800
Changes are from figures in our last update. The province released this information on Oct. 13, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 4,136 active cases - minus 233
- 242 people hospitalized - plus 87
- 593,020 confirmed cases - plus 306
- 579,080 recovered cases - plus 527
- 9,804 deaths - plus 12
- 588,884 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.3%
- 23,219 tests were conducted with a positive rate of 1.7%
- 153 people in ICU - plus 4
- 102 people on ventilators - minus 2
- 22 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - minus 2
Summary of variants of concern (VOC)
These numbers are for the number of people who tested positive, and further testing has confirmed their specific case is one of a particular variant of concern in Ontario.
- 146,492 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant - plus 5
- 1,503 confirmed cases of Beta variant - no change
- 5,229 confirmed cases of Gamma variant - no change
- 19,448 confirmed cases of Delta variant - plus 30
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
- Canada reports 1.6 million cumulative recoveries
- The United States announces it will finally re-open its land border with Canada early next month
- Cleaning up data from the Thanksgiving weekend, nearly 100 new deaths are reported nationwide
- More than 6.5 billion doses have been administered worldwide
- 82.20% of all eligible Canadians (age 12 and older) are fully vaccinated
Summary of national vaccinations
- 29.67 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (76.95% of total pop.)
- At least 27.59 million people are fully vaccinated (71.96% of total pop.)
- 57.26 million vaccine doses administered - plus 123,000
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Oct. 12, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 39,138 active cases - minus 1,561
- 2,472 active hospitalizations - plus 42
- 1.66 million confirmed cases to date
- 1.60 million recoveries - plus 1,412
- 28,319 deaths - plus 91
- Ranked 81st in global deaths per capita at 75.13 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 44.51 million cumulative cases - plus 110,000
- 716,370 deaths - plus 2,127
- 56.6% are fully vaccinated (66.2% of those eligible)
- Ranked 20th in global deaths per capita at 217.13 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 238.52 million cases - plus 364,000
- 4.86 million people have died worldwide
- At least 6.54 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)
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