COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021
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Daily Epidemiologic Summary COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 This report includes the most current information available from CCM as of March 15, 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 320,448 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario reported to date. Compared to the previous day, this represents: An increase of 1,074 confirmed cases (percent change of -15.3%) An increase of 11 deaths (percent change of +22.2%) An increase of 1,085 resolved cases (percent change of -2.6%) 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 March 15, 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 March 15, 2021 March 14, March 15, compared to March as of March 15, 2021 2021 14, 2021 2021 Total number of cases 1,268 1,074 -15.3% 320,448 Number of deaths 9 11 +22.2% 7,173 Number resolved 1,114 1,085 -2.6% 300,769 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 March 15, 2021 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 March 14, 2021 March 15, 2021 as of March 15, 2021 Gender: Male 641 517 157,913 Gender: Female 596 545 160,764 Ages: 19 and under 254 214 44,076 Ages: 20-39 494 417 117,514 Ages: 40-59 335 297 92,289 Ages: 60-79 147 118 45,766 Ages: 80 and over 38 26 20,727 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 March 15, 2021: Ontario Change in cases Change in cases Cumulative case count from August 30, 2020 March 14, 2021 March 15, 2021 to March 15, 2021 Ages: 4 to 8 56 40 7,578 Ages: 9 to 13 67 61 10,110 Ages: 14 to 17 73 47 10,370 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 March 15, 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 March 14, 2021 March 15, 2021 as of March 15, 2021 Residents 12 3 14,987 Health care workers 4 6 6,746 Deaths among residents 3 1 3,882 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 March 15, 2021 4 Time Figure 1. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and public health unit reported date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 5 Figure 2. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and approximation of symptom onset date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to March 15, 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 March 15, 2021 6 Figure 3. Number of COVID-19 tests completed and percent positivity: Ontario, March 29, 2020 to March 14, 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 March 15, 2021 7 Severity Figure 4. Confirmed deaths among COVID-19 cases by date of death: Ontario, March 1, 2020 to March 15, 2021 Note: Cases without a death date are not included in the figure. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 8 Table 4. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by severity: Ontario Cumulative case count Percentage of all Blank cell as of March 15, 2021 cases Cumulative deaths reported (please note there may 7,173 2.2% be a reporting delay for deaths) Deaths reported in ages: 19 and under 2 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 20-39 30 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 40-59 295 0.3% Deaths reported in ages: 60-79 1,995 4.4% Deaths reported in ages: 80 and over 4,850 23.4% Ever in ICU 2,840 0.9% Ever hospitalized 16,001 5.0% 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 March 15, 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 Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases March cases March per 100,000 case count 14, 2021 15, 2021 population Northwestern Health Unit 9 3 579 660.4 Thunder Bay District Health Unit 61 29 2,404 1,603.1 TOTAL NORTH WEST 70 32 2,983 1,255.3 Algoma Public Health 4 -1 208 181.8 North Bay Parry Sound District 1 1 271 208.9 Health Unit Porcupine Health Unit 0 0 344 412.3 Public Health Sudbury & Districts 33 9 1,013 509.0 Timiskaming Health Unit 0 0 106 324.3 TOTAL NORTH EAST 38 9 1,942 347.2 Ottawa Public Health 57 66 15,664 1,485.2 Eastern Ontario Health Unit 13 10 2,861 1,370.8 Hastings Prince Edward Public 0 0 436 258.8 Health Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox 2 7 758 356.3 & Addington Public Health Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District 19 7 993 573.4 Health Unit Renfrew County and District 0 2 392 360.9 Health Unit TOTAL EASTERN 91 92 21,104 1,095.5 COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 10 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases March cases March per 100,000 case count 14, 2021 15, 2021 population Durham Region Health 53 27 12,470 1,750.4 Department Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge 5 5 1,089 576.4 District Health Unit Peel Public Health 220 199 64,399 4,010.0 Peterborough Public Health 5 1 768 519.0 Simcoe Muskoka District Health 33 15 7,060 1,177.5 Unit York Region Public Health 147 101 30,474 2,486.1 TOTAL CENTRAL EAST 463 348 116,260 2,594.7 Toronto Public Health 366 313 99,756 3,196.9 TOTAL TORONTO 366 313 99,756 3,196.9 Chatham-Kent Public Health 5 9 1,441 1,355.4 Grey Bruce Health Unit 1 2 707 416.2 Huron Perth Public Health 3 1 1,404 1,004.6 Lambton Public Health 14 31 2,423 1,850.1 Middlesex-London Health Unit 8 16 6,464 1,273.6 Southwestern Public Health 8 12 2,646 1,251.1 Windsor-Essex County Health 10 35 13,406 3,155.6 Unit TOTAL SOUTH WEST 49 106 28,491 1,685.1 Brant County Health Unit 17 21 2,017 1,299.6 City of Hamilton Public Health 71 66 11,374 1,920.8 Services COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to March 15, 2021 11 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases March cases March per 100,000 case count 14, 2021 15, 2021 population Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 2 1 1,468 1,286.8 Halton Region Public Health 47 27 9,766 1,577.5 Niagara Region Public Health 27 21 8,980 1,900.6 Region of Waterloo Public Health 18 31 11,318 1,936.8 and Emergency Services Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph 9 7 4,989 1,599.5 Public Health TOTAL CENTRAL WEST 191 174 49,912 1,751.7 TOTAL ONTARIO 1,268 1,074 320,448 2,155.8 Notes: Health units with data corrections or updates could result in records being removed from totals resulting in negative counts.