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Coronavirus Test Kit
This is the October 14th Coronavirus Update. Oakville discharges one of its COVID-19 hospital patients as a new death is reported in Halton Region. Cases alarmingly rise in Ontario as daily provincial testing falls by the thousands. Active cases in Canada exceed 20,000 for the first time in more than three months.
Note: Oakville figures are now updated seven days a week with Ontario and Global cases. Provincial school updates are released weekdays. Oakville News does not publish updates on Sundays.
Oakville Coronavirus Cases Status
- Active cases in Oakville and Halton continue declining
- One patient is discharged from Oakville Trafalgar Medical Hospital after two were admitted yesterday
- Halton reports one new death today for a total of 28
- Two new cases are reported in Oakville schools
Changes in figures are since the last Oakville News update, October 13, 2020. Sources are from end of yesterday.
- 565 confirmed cases - plus 8
- 40 probable cases - no change
- 605 confirmed and probable cases total - plus 8
- 69 active cases - minus 1
- 3 deaths - no change
- 533 recoveries (87.7% of all cases) - plus 9
- 536 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 88.3% of cases
- 2 cases in OTMH - minus 1
Status in Halton
- 1,674 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 34
- 210 active cases - minus 2
- 28 deaths - plus 1
- 1,436 recoveries (85.8% of all cases) - plus 35
- 1,464 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 87.1% of cases
- 5 cases in hospital - minus 1
Note: Halton Region's recovery count is combined into one number with probable, now closed cases. This total includes some cases that were not coronavirus recoveries.
Cases in Halton Public Schools
- 11 confirmed cases in Oakville - plus 2
- 26 confirmed cases in Halton - plus 2
Ontario Coronavirus Update
- Testing has fallen by more than 20% since walk-in COVID-19 testing ended last week
- Active cases dip slightly as testing slows (Ontario is missing by its daily target of 50,000 tests per day by more than 15,000)
- Total cases in Ontario schools are now more than 1,000 since returning to school last month
- More than half of regions in Ontario continue seeing an average of 1 or no new cases of Coronavirus on a daily basis
- Cases in Ottawa slowing down; Peel and Toronto region now account for 62% of new cases in Ontario
- One death is corrected from another region as Halton reports a new one
Changes are from yesterday’s figures. Information released as of October 14, 2020 for the end of day yesterday.
- 61,413 confirmed cases - plus 721
- 5,884 active cases - minus 62
- 52,512 recovered cases - plus 783
- 3,017 deaths - no change
- 55,529 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 91.4%
- 32,206 completed tests yesterday
- 231 people hospitalized - plus 1
- 64 people in ICU - plus 4
- 35 people on ventilators - plus 1
Summary of Institutional Outbreaks (Long Term Care Homes, Retirement Homes, Hospitals)
- 846 total outbreaks reported - plus 5
- 118 active, ongoing outbreaks - plus 5
Summary of School and Child Care cases
Note: this information does not update on weekends.
There are 4,828 schools in Ontario. (Total does not include private schools. Some unidentified cases are moved into other groups over time, skewing the daily increases.)
- 1,040 cases in total - plus 96
- 580 student cases - plus 51
- 168 staff cases - plus 13
- 292 unidentified cases - plus 32
- 421 schools with a reported case (8.7% in total)
- 5 schools closed - plus 2 (0.1% in total)
There are over 5,620 licensed child care settings. The numbers represent the cumulative total.
- 261 confirmed cases - plus 15
- 61 centres closed - plus 2
- 298 homes closed - plus 8
Canada and Global Coronavirus Status
- Cases in Canada increase more than 25,000 in the last two weeks
- Federal and Ontario government will invest a new $26.6 million to stop the spread of COVID-19 in farming
- While Ontario and Quebec have most of Canada's new cases, Manitoba records its worst day of infections yet
- Canada's daily new cases are at an all-time high
- Active cases in Canada exceed 20,000 for the first time since July
Changes in figures are since the last Oakville News update, October 13, 2020.
- 185,337 confirmed and suspected cases - plus 1,865
- 20,244 active cases - plus 276
- 9,663 deaths - plus 28
- 159,045 recoveries - plus 1,561
- 168,708 resolved cases (91.0% of all cases)
Figures Around the World
- 38.3 million cases globally
- At least 1.09 million deaths
- The world now averages 2 million new infections every week
United States
- 7.94 million total cases (20.7% worldwide)
- 216,500+ deaths (19.8% worldwide)
- North and South Dakota have led states in new infections per capita for more than a month
Countries with the largest number of infections
- United States - 7.94 million
- India - 7.24 million
- Brazil - 5.12 million
- Russia - 1.33 million
- Colombia - 924,000
The five countries leading active deaths last week are India, the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
