This is the Monday, Oct. 4, 2021 coronavirus update. Over the weekend, the number of active cases dropped in Oakville and Halton to 41 and 102. There are three outbreaks in Oakville, all in school settings, and eight of the 11 outbreaks in Halton are also in school settings.
Fifteen Oakville schools are reporting 30 cases, and 34 Halton schools have reported 71 cases. Over 16 per cent of the province's schools have reported cases, and five schools are closed.
Halton weekly cases per 100,000 are 23.6, down 19.2 per cent over the past two weeks, and Ontario's is 27.7, down 7.7 per cent.
Halton's vaccination rate for eligible people reached 87 per cent for first doses and 83 per cent for second doses. Oakville is lagging at 84 per cent for first and 80 per cent for second. The least vaccinated age group in Halton are 25 to 29-year-olds, with 71 per cent fully inoculated.
Only Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and Joseph Brant Hospital are together caring for seven patients; all other Halton hospitals are COVID free.
Across the country, active cases dropped to 44,100, and hospitalizations dropped by over 100 to 2,321.
Per capita, Canada is ranked as the 81st deadliest country according to John Hopkins University, whereas the United States is ranked 20th. The United States recorded its 700,000th death this weekend.
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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
Summary of local vaccinations
- 83% of eligible Halton residents are fully vaccinated
- 87% have received at least one dose
- 874,133 vaccine doses have been administered
Changes in figures are since the last Oakville News update on Oct. 2, 2021.
- 41 active cases - minus 4
- 2 patients at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - no change
- 6,117 total cases (confirmed and probable) - plus 16
- 68 deaths - no change
- 6,008 recoveries - plus 20
- 6,076 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.3% of cases
- 3 active outbreaks - minus 1 - all schools
Status in Halton
- 102 active cases - minus 14
- 7 cases in hospitals across Halton - no change
- 19,557 total cases (confirmed+probable) - plus 50
- 242 deaths - no change
- 19,213 recoveries - plus 64
- 19,455 completed (recoveries+deaths) cases - 99.4% of cases
- 11 active outbreaks - minus 6 - 8 are schools
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
- 15 Oakville schools are reporting cases - no change
- 30 confirmed cases in Oakville schools - no change
- 34 Halton schools are reporting cases - plus 2
- 71 confirmed cases in Halton schools
Ontario COVID-19 update
Summary of provincial vaccinations
- 11.27 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (76% of total pop.)
- At least 10.59 million people are fully vaccinated (71% of total pop.)
- 21.87 million vaccine doses administered - plus 23.87
Changes are from figures in our last update. The province released this information on Oct. 4, 2021, as of the end of yesterday.
- 5,004 active cases - plus 21
- 146 people hospitalized - plus 2
- 588,612 confirmed cases - plus 511
- 573,854 recovered cases - plus 488
- 9,754 deaths - plus 2 (previously not reported)
- 583,608 resolved cases (deaths & recovered) or 99.1%
- 23,667 tests were conducted with a positive rate of 2%
- 133 people in ICU - minus 2
- 85 people on ventilators - no change
- 27 active, ongoing institutional outbreaks - no change
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.
- 146,477 confirmed cases of the Alpha variant - plus 2
- 1,503 confirmed cases of Beta variant - no change
- 5,229 confirmed cases of Gamma variant - no change
- 18,664 confirmed cases of Delta variant - plus 40
School Status
- 2,430 total cases - plus 146
- 2,109 student cases - plus 133
- 266 staff cases - plus 11
- 53 unidentified - plus 2
- 816 schools with confirmed cases or 16.85%
- 5 schools closed or 0.1%
Canadian and Global COVID-19 updates
Summary of national vaccinations
- 29.34 million people have received at least one vaccine dose (76.95% of total pop.)
- At least 27.12 million people are fully vaccinated (71.12% of total pop.)
- 56.46 million vaccine doses administered - plus 46,000
Changes in figures are since the Oakville News update on Oct. 2, 2021. With the high number of cases nationwide and globally, all numbers are approximate (within 0.1% of the total.)
- 44,111 active cases - minus 344
- 2,321 active hospitalizations - minus 106
- 1.63 million confirmed and suspected cases to date - plus 1,682
- 1.56 million recoveries - plus 2,014
- 27,964 deaths - plus 12
- Ranked 81st in global deaths per capita at 74.49 per 100,000 people
US COVID-19 Update
- 43.60 million cumulative cases - plus 28,800
- 700,176 deaths - plus 250
- 56% are fully vaccinated (65.5% of those eligible)
- Ranked 20th in global deaths per capita at 213.35 per 100,000 people
World COVID-19 Update
- 234.8 million cases - plus 257,000
- 4.8 million people have died worldwide - plus 4,200
- At least 6.34 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide (source: Our World Data)
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