COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020
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Daily Epidemiologic Summary COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 This report includes the most current information available from CCM and other case management systems (CCM plus) as of October 6, 2020. 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 55,945 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario reported to date. Compared to the previous day, this represents: An increase of 583 confirmed cases (percent change of +6.4%) An increase of 1 death (percent change of -85.7%) An increase of 707 resolved cases (percent change of +29.5%) 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 October 6, 2020 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 October 6 compared October 5 October 6 to October 5 as of October 6 Total number of cases 548 583 +6.4% 55,945 Number of deaths 7 1 -85.7% 2,988 Number resolved 546 707 +29.5% 47,613 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 Source: CCM plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 2 Table 1b. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by age group and gender: Ontario Change in cases Change in cases Cumulative case count October 5 October 6 as of October 6 Gender: Male 249 280 26,690 Gender: Female 294 291 28,856 Ages: 19 and under 84 105 4,907 Ages: 20-39 253 244 19,795 Ages: 40-59 139 141 15,844 Ages: 60-79 51 63 8,883 Ages: 80 and over 22 30 6,507 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 plus Table 2. 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 October 5 October 6 as of October 6 Residents 14 23 6,253 Health care workers 9 9 2,668 Deaths among residents 2 -1 1,952 Deaths among health care 0 0 8 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 plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 3 Time Figure 1. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and public health unit reported date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 Data Source: CCM plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 4 Figure 2. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and approximation of symptom onset date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 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 plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 5 Figure 3. Number of COVID-19 tests completed and percent positivity: Ontario, March 29, 2020 to October 5, 2020 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 October 6, 2020 6 Severity Figure 4. Confirmed deaths among COVID-19 cases by date of death: Ontario, March 1, 2020 to October 6, 2020 Note: Cases without a death date are not included in the figure. Data Source: CCM plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 7 Table 3. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by severity: Ontario Cumulative case Percentage of all Blank cell count as of October 6 cases Cumulative deaths reported (please note there may 2,988 5.3% be a reporting delay for deaths) Deaths reported in ages: 19 and under 1 0.0% Deaths reported in ages: 20-39 11 0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 40-59 124 0.8% Deaths reported in ages: 60-79 797 9.0% Deaths reported in ages: 80 and over 2,055 31.6% Ever in ICU 1,109 2.0% Ever hospitalized 5,300 9.5% 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 plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 8 Geography Table 4. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by public health unit and region: Ontario Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases cases per 100,000 case count October 5 October 6 population Northwestern Health Unit -1 1 66 75.3 Thunder Bay District Health Unit 0 0 107 71.4 TOTAL NORTH WEST -1 1 173 72.8 Algoma Public Health 0 2 36 31.5 North Bay Parry Sound District -1 0 38 29.3 Health Unit Porcupine Health Unit 0 1 85 101.9 Public Health Sudbury & Districts 0 0 108 54.3 Timiskaming Health Unit 0 -1 19 58.1 TOTAL NORTH EAST -1 2 286 51.1 Ottawa Public Health 62 121 4,963 470.6 Eastern Ontario Health Unit 13 5 306 146.6 Hastings Prince Edward Public 0 -1 61 36.2 Health Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & 6 2 154 72.4 Addington Public Health Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District 1 4 400 231.0 Health Unit Renfrew County and District Health 1 2 60 55.2 Unit COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 9 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases cases per 100,000 case count October 5 October 6 population TOTAL EASTERN 83 133 5,944 308.6 Durham Region Health Department 12 12 2,263 317.7 Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge 2 -1 245 129.7 District Health Unit Peel Public Health 90 70 9,814 611.1 Peterborough Public Health 1 1 130 87.9 Simcoe Muskoka District Health 10 23 985 164.3 Unit York Region Public Health 56 75 4,576 373.3 TOTAL CENTRAL EAST 171 180 18,013 402.0 Toronto Public Health 201 173 19,778 633.8 TOTAL TORONTO 201 173 19,778 633.8 Chatham-Kent Public Health 0 0 371 349.0 Grey Bruce Health Unit 1 1 142 83.6 Huron Perth Public Health 0 1 133 95.2 Lambton Public Health -1 0 347 265.0 Middlesex-London Health Unit 3 12 915 180.3 Southwestern Public Health 0 0 273 129.1 Windsor-Essex County Health Unit 2 4 2,671 628.7 TOTAL SOUTH WEST 5 18 4,852 287.0 Brant County Health Unit 3 1 215 138.5 COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 10 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases cases per 100,000 case count October 5 October 6 population City of Hamilton Public Health 15 25 1,234 208.4 Services Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 0 2 483 423.4 Halton Region Public Health 30 15 1,294 209.0 Niagara Region Public Health 17 8 1,152 243.8 Region of Waterloo Public Health 21 17 1,832 313.5 and Emergency Services Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public 4 8 689 220.9 Health TOTAL CENTRAL WEST 90 76 6,899 242.1 TOTAL ONTARIO 548 583 55,945 376.4 Note: Health units with data corrections or updates could result in records being removed from totals resulting in negative counts. Data Source: CCM plus COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to October 6, 2020 11 Outbreaks Table 5. Summary of recent confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks reported in long-term care homes, retirement homes and hospitals by status: Ontario Change in Change in Number of Cumulative number of Institution type outbreaks outbreaks ongoing outbreaks reported October 5 October 6 outbreaks Long-term care homes 3 5 48 481 Retirement homes 3 4 40 227 Hospitals 0 1 8 105 Note: Ongoing outbreaks includes all outbreaks that are ‘Open’ in iPHIS without a ‘Declared Over Date’ recorded.