Ontario Public Health has reported an additional 485 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, a reduction over yesterday’s increase.
The province also announced an additional 36 deaths attributed to the virus.
There have now been 10,010 cases confirmed in total in Ontario since the pandemic began, and of those, 4,875 (48.7 per cent) have recovered and 514 (5.1 per cent) have died.
There are currently 828 patients hospitalized, and, of those, 250 are in intensive care units and 197 are on ventilators.
Of the total 10,010 cases confirmed positive in Ontario, 43 per cent of them have been people over 60 and 12.4 per cent have been hospitalized with 3.4 per cent of the total cases in the province requiring intensive care. Five per cent of Ontario’s confirmed COVID-19 cases have died.
In total there have been 1,222 (12.2 per cent) cases where the person infected had a history of travel, 1,789 (17.9 per cent) where the transmission is attributed to close contact, and 2,816 (28.1 per cent) deemed community transmission. Transmission information for the remaining 4,183 (41.8 per cent) cases are listed as “pending.”
There were 9,462 tests processed yesterday and there are 6,833 awaiting results.
There are now 108 outbreaks confirmed in long-term care homes in Ontario and 31 at hospitals.
There are 1,322 confirmed cases reported among residents and patients at long term care homes, and there have been 233 deaths of long-term care patients and residents attributed to COVID-19.
Epidemiological curve graphs showing the number of confirmed cases by date of symptom onset and by date reported show an increase from March to April, and an overall plateau in April so far, however, data from the last two weeks may not reflect cases transmitted during that time as symptoms may not yet have appeared.
In Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit there have been a total of 185 lab-confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in the region. The total caseload includes 12 people who have died and 82 who have recovered.
There are currently 10 people hospitalized in the region and six of those people are in intensive care units.
There are 10 people in hospital including four at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, four at Southlake Regional Health Centre, and one at Stevenson Memorial Hospital. The other hospitalized case is “under investigation.”
The largest transmission source for cases in the region is now community transmission, which is attributed to 53 of the total 185 cases. There were 50 cases with a history of travel and 40 considered close contact transmission. There are 28 cases associated with the long-term care outbreak at Bradford Valley, another six cases marked “undetermined” and there are eight more “under investigation.”
The region’s doubling time - that is the amount of time it takes for the number of infected people to double has increased from 7.2 days a week ago to 14.3 days now.
The case breakdown for towns and cities (including those who have died or recovered) is as follows: Bradford W-G (50), Barrie (45), New Tecumseth (18), Orillia (10), Collingwood (8), Innisfil (6), Springwater (5), Midland (4), Wasaga Beach (6), Oro-Medonte (4), Adjala-Tosorontio (3), Clearview (2), Essa (3), Ramara (2), Tiny (2), Penetanguishene (2) for a total of 170 cases in Simcoe County.
There are also 15 confirmed positive cases in Muskoka.
In Simcoe Muskoka the infection rate per 100,000 people is 29.5, the provincial average is 67.3 per 100,000 people.
