COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021
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Daily Epidemiologic Summary COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 This report includes the most current information available from CCM as of February 27, 2021. Please visit the interactive Ontario COVID-19 Data Tool to explore recent COVID-19 data by public health unit, age group, sex, and trends over time. A weekly summary report is available with additional information to complement the daily report. This daily report provides an epidemiologic summary of recent COVID-19 activity in Ontario. The change in cases is determined by taking the cumulative difference between the current day and the previous day. Highlights • There are a total of 300,816 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario reported to date. • Compared to the previous day, this represents: • An increase of 1,062 confirmed cases (percent change of -10.4%) • An increase of 20 deaths (percent change of +25.0%) • An increase of 1,029 resolved cases (percent change of +4.6%) In this document, the term ‘change in cases’ refers to cases publicly reported by the province for a given day. Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and or updated from past reports and may result in subset totals for updated case counts (i.e., age group, gender) differing from the overall updated case counts. The term public health unit reported date in this document refers to the date local public health units were first notified of the case. COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 1 Case Characteristics Table 1a. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19: Ontario Change in Change in Percentage change Cumulative case cases cases count February 27, 2021 February 26, February 27, compared to as of February 27, 2021 2021 February 26, 2021 2021 Total number of cases 1,185 1,062 -10.4% 300,816 Number of deaths 16 20 +25.0% 6,980 Number resolved 984 1,029 +4.6% 283,344 Note: The number of cases publicly reported by the province each day may not align with case counts reported to public health on a given day; public health unit reported date refers to the date local public health was first notified of the case. Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and or updated from past reports. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 2 Table 1b. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by age group and gender: Ontario Cumulative case count Change in cases Change in cases as of February 27, February 26, 2021 February 27, 2021 2021 Gender: Male 632 560 147,957 Gender: Female 533 499 151,317 Ages: 19 and under 268 242 40,196 Ages: 20-39 441 395 110,159 Ages: 40-59 297 275 86,910 Ages: 60-79 157 130 43,279 Ages: 80 and over 23 20 20,209 Note: Not all cases have a reported age or gender reported. Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and or updated from past reports and may result in subset totals (i.e., age group, gender) differing from past publicly reported case counts. Data Source: CCM Table 2. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 in school aged children by age group, August 30, 2020 to February 27, 2021: Ontario Change in cases Change in cases Cumulative case count from August 30, 2020 February 26, 2021 February 27, 2021 to February 27, 2021 Ages: 4 to 8 58 58 6,715 Ages: 9 to 13 80 62 9,044 Ages: 14 to 17 65 46 9,489 Note: Includes all confirmed cases of COVID-19 for specified ages, regardless of school attendance. Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and or updated from past reports and may result in subset totals (i.e., age group) differing from past publicly reported case counts. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 3 Table 3. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 in long-term care homes: Ontario Change in cases Change in cases Cumulative case count Long-term care home cases February 26, 2021 February 27, 2021 as of February 27, 2021 Residents 3 0 14,958 Health care workers 4 3 6,618 Deaths among residents 1 -1 3,864 Deaths among health care 0 0 10 workers Note: Information on how long-term care home residents and health care workers are identified is available in the technical notes. Also, the change in cases in these categories may represent existing case records that have been updated. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 4 Time Figure 1. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and public health unit reported date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 5 Figure 2. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and approximation of symptom onset date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 Note: Not all cases may have an episode date and those without one are not included in the figure. Episode date is defined and available in the technical notes. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 6 Figure 3. Number of COVID-19 tests completed and percent positivity: Ontario, March 29, 2020 to February 26, 2021 Note: The number of tests performed does not reflect the number of specimens or persons tested. More than one test may be performed per specimen or per person. As such, the percentage of tests that were positive does not necessarily translate to the number of specimens or persons testing positive. Data Source: The Provincial COVID-19 Diagnostics Network, data reported by member microbiology laboratories. COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 7 Severity Figure 4. Confirmed deaths among COVID-19 cases by date of death: Ontario, March 1, 2020 to February 27, 2021 Note: Cases without a death date are not included in the figure. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 8 Table 4. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by severity: Ontario Cumulative case count Percentage of all Blank cell as of February 27, 2021 cases Cumulative deaths reported (please note there may 6,980 2.3% be a reporting delay for deaths) Deaths reported in ages: 19 and under 2 < 0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 20-39 29 < 0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 40-59 282 0.3% Deaths reported in ages: 60-79 1,914 4.4% Deaths reported in ages: 80 and over 4,752 23.5% Ever in ICU 2,742 0.9% Ever hospitalized 15,194 5.1% Note: Not all cases have an age reported. Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and/or updated and may result in totals differing from past publicly reported case counts. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 9 Geography Table 5. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by public health unit and region: Ontario Change in Change in Cumulative rate cases cases Cumulative Public Health Unit Name per 100,000 February 26, February 27, case count population 2021 2021 Northwestern Health Unit 2 14 459 523.5 Thunder Bay District Health Unit 55 22 1,585 1,056.9 TOTAL NORTH WEST 57 36 2,044 860.1 Algoma Public Health 1 -1 197 172.2 North Bay Parry Sound District 0 0 260 200.4 Health Unit Porcupine Health Unit 4 -1 338 405.1 Public Health Sudbury & Districts 7 16 625 314.0 Timiskaming Health Unit 0 1 93 284.5 TOTAL NORTH EAST 12 15 1,513 270.5 Ottawa Public Health 67 31 14,655 1,389.6 Eastern Ontario Health Unit 7 4 2,678 1,283.1 Hastings Prince Edward Public 5 4 407 241.6 Health Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox 1 1 708 332.8 & Addington Public Health Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District 0 4 855 493.7 Health Unit Renfrew County and District 3 2 340 313.0 Health Unit COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 10 Change in Change in Cumulative rate cases cases Cumulative Public Health Unit Name per 100,000 February 26, February 27, case count population 2021 2021 TOTAL EASTERN 83 46 19,643 1,019.7 Durham Region Health 36 23 11,808 1,657.5 Department Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge 1 3 1,030 545.2 District Health Unit Peel Public Health 220 201 60,906 3,792.5 Peterborough Public Health 4 7 631 426.4 Simcoe Muskoka District Health 35 20 6,494 1,083.1 Unit York Region Public Health 119 86 28,703 2,341.6 TOTAL CENTRAL EAST 415 340 109,572 2,445.4 Toronto Public Health 331 259 94,117 3,016.2 TOTAL TORONTO 331 259 94,117 3,016.2 Chatham-Kent Public Health 0 5 1,352 1,271.7 Grey Bruce Health Unit -1 2 694 408.5 Huron Perth Public Health 7 3 1,347 963.8 Lambton Public Health 13 26 2,088 1,594.3 Middlesex-London Health Unit 13 13 6,166 1,214.9 Southwestern Public Health 11 43 2,538 1,200.0 Windsor-Essex County Health 26 25 12,952 3,048.7 Unit TOTAL SOUTH WEST 69 117 27,137 1,605.0 Brant County Health Unit 41 31 1,790 1,153.3 COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to February 27, 2021 11 Change in Change in Cumulative rate cases cases Cumulative Public Health Unit Name per 100,000 February 26, February 27, case count population 2021 2021 City of Hamilton Public Health 59 45 10,449 1,764.5 Services Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 6 6 1,381 1,210.5 Halton Region Public Health 32 47 9,150 1,478.0 Niagara Region Public Health 13 18 8,572 1,814.2 Region of Waterloo Public Health 52 60 10,682 1,828.0 and Emergency Services Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph 15 42 4,766 1,528.0 Public Health TOTAL CENTRAL WEST 218 249 46,790 1,642.2 TOTAL ONTARIO 1,185 1,062 300,816 2,023.7 Notes: Health units with data corrections or updates could result in records being removed from totals resulting in negative counts.