COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021
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DAILY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SUMMARY COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 This report includes the most current information available from CCM as of April 24, 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 445,351 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario reported to date. Compared to the previous day, this represents: An increase of 3,947 confirmed cases (percent change of -3.6%) An increase of 24 deaths (percent change of 0.0%) An increase of 4,239 resolved cases (percent change of -2.1%) 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 April 24, 2021 1 Case Characteristics Table 1a. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19: Ontario Percentage change Change in Change in Cumulative case cases cases April 24, 2021 count compared to April April 23, 2021 April 24, 2021 as of April 24, 2021 23, 2021 Total number of cases 4,094 3,947 -3.6% 445,351 Number of deaths 24 24 0.0% 7,911 Number resolved 4,332 4,239 -2.1% 396,283 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 April 24, 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 April 23, 2021 April 24, 2021 as of April 24, 2021 Gender: Male 2,077 1,952 221,113 Gender: Female 1,969 1,938 221,208 Ages: 19 and under 707 748 68,000 Ages: 20-39 1,594 1,510 163,749 Ages: 40-59 1,198 1,177 128,554 Ages: 60-79 518 457 61,725 Ages: 80 and over 80 65 23,214 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 April 24, 2021: Ontario Change in cases Change in cases Cumulative case count from August 30, 2020 April 23, 2021 April 24, 2021 to April 24, 2021 Ages: 4 to 8 144 147 12,318 Ages: 9 to 13 152 152 16,008 Ages: 14 to 17 166 190 15,963 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 April 24, 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 April 23, 2021 April 24, 2021 as of April 24, 2021 Residents -6 12 15,124 Health care workers 6 3 6,924 Deaths among residents 0 1 3,914 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 April 24, 2021 4 Time Figure 1. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and public health unit reported date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 5 Figure 2. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and approximation of symptom onset date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to April 24, 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 April 24, 2021 6 Figure 3. Number of COVID-19 tests completed and percent positivity: Ontario, March 29, 2020 to April 23, 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 April 24, 2021 7 Severity Figure 4. Confirmed deaths among COVID-19 cases by date of death: Ontario, March 1, 2020 to April 24, 2021 Note: Cases without a death date are not included in the figure. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 8 Table 4. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by severity: Ontario Cumulative case count Percentage of all Blank cell as of April 24, 2021 cases Cumulative deaths reported (please note there may 7,911 1.8% be a reporting delay for deaths) Deaths reported in ages: 19 and under 3 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 20-39 48 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 40-59 366 0.3% Deaths reported in ages: 60-79 2,325 3.8% Deaths reported in ages: 80 and over 5,168 22.3% Ever in ICU 3,883 0.9% Ever hospitalized 21,388 4.8% 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 April 24 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 April cases April per 100,000 case count 23, 2021 24, 2021 population Northwestern Health Unit 9 11 870 992.3 Thunder Bay District Health Unit 9 13 3,071 2,047.9 TOTAL NORTH WEST 18 24 3,941 1,658.4 Algoma Public Health 0 1 315 275.3 North Bay Parry Sound District 1 2 337 259.7 Health Unit Porcupine Health Unit 15 3 562 673.5 Public Health Sudbury & Districts 4 10 1,871 940.1 Timiskaming Health Unit 3 5 162 495.6 TOTAL NORTH EAST 23 21 3,247 580.5 Ottawa Public Health 158 209 23,265 2,205.9 Eastern Ontario Health Unit 32 31 4,174 1,999.9 Hastings Prince Edward Public 6 13 868 515.2 Health Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox 9 12 1,208 567.9 & Addington Public Health Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District 12 10 1,572 907.8 Health Unit Renfrew County and District 5 11 552 508.1 Health Unit TOTAL EASTERN 222 286 31,639 1,642.4 COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 10 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases April cases April per 100,000 case count 23, 2021 24, 2021 population Durham Region Health 199 207 19,434 2,728.0 Department Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge 14 6 1,575 833.6 District Health Unit Peel Public Health 1,014 901 87,895 5,473.1 Peterborough Public Health 8 14 1,163 785.9 Simcoe Muskoka District Health 86 111 10,067 1,679.0 Unit York Region Public Health 406 406 44,108 3,598.3 TOTAL CENTRAL EAST 1,727 1,645 164,242 3,665.6 Toronto Public Health 1,191 1,136 137,243 4,398.3 TOTAL TORONTO 1,191 1,136 137,243 4,398.3 Chatham-Kent Public Health 3 3 1,747 1,643.2 Grey Bruce Health Unit 14 7 1,123 661.0 Huron Perth Public Health 7 6 1,572 1,124.8 Lambton Public Health 12 8 3,182 2,429.7 Middlesex-London Health Unit 96 104 9,888 1,948.3 Southwestern Public Health 16 33 3,321 1,570.2 Windsor-Essex County Health 45 59 15,169 3,570.6 Unit TOTAL SOUTH WEST 193 220 36,002 2,129.3 Brant County Health Unit 32 31 2,997 1,931.0 City of Hamilton Public Health 133 109 16,346 2,760.4 Services COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to April 24, 2021 11 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases April cases April per 100,000 case count 23, 2021 24, 2021 population Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 31 16 2,139 1,875.0 Halton Region Public Health 109 153 13,840 2,235.6 Niagara Region Public Health 226 115 13,023 2,756.3 Region of Waterloo Public Health 111 118 13,856 2,371.1 and Emergency Services Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph 78 73 6,836 2,191.7 Public Health TOTAL CENTRAL WEST 720 615 69,037 2,423.0 TOTAL ONTARIO 4,094 3,947 445,351 2,996.1 Notes: Health units with data corrections or updates could result in records being removed from totals resulting in negative counts.