DAILY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SUMMARY COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 This report includes the most current information available from CCM as of July 19, 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 548,474 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ontario reported to date. Compared to the previous day, this represents: An increase of 127 confirmed cases (percent change of -2.3%) An increase of 2 deaths (percent change not applicable) An increase of 126 resolved cases (percent change of -17.6%) 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 July 19, 2021 1 Case Characteristics Table 1a. Summary of recent confirmed cases of COVID-19: Ontario Percentage change Change in Change in Cumulative case July 19, 2021 cases cases count compared to July 18, July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 as of July 19, 2021 2021 Total number of cases 130 127 -2.3% 548,474 Number of deaths 0 2 N/A 9,296 Number resolved 153 126 -17.6% 537,824 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 July 19, 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 July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 as of July 19, 2021 Gender: Male 70 67 273,349 Gender: Female 75 62 271,407 Ages: 19 and under 23 28 88,557 Ages: 20-39 53 56 205,430 Ages: 40-59 28 30 156,381 Ages: 60-79 23 8 72,829 Ages: 80 and over 3 5 25,183 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 July 19, 2021: Ontario Cumulative case count Change in cases Change in cases from August 30, 2020 July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 to July 19, 2021 Ages: 4 to 8 4 5 16,407 Ages: 9 to 13 3 8 20,509 Ages: 14 to 17 7 8 20,865 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 July 19, 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 July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 as of July 19, 2021 Residents -3 -1 15,445 Health care workers 2 1 7,233 Deaths among residents 0 0 3,977 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 July 19, 2021 4 Time Figure 1. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and public health unit reported date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 5 Figure 2. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by likely acquisition and approximation of symptom onset date: Ontario, January 15, 2020 to July 19, 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 July 19, 2021 6 Figure 3. Number of COVID-19 tests completed and percent positivity: Ontario, March 29, 2020 to July 18, 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 July 19, 2021 7 Severity Figure 4. Confirmed deaths among COVID-19 cases by date of death: Ontario, March 1, 2020 to July 19, 2021 Note: Cases without a death date are not included in the figure. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 8 Table 4. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 by severity: Ontario Cumulative case count Percentage of all Blank cell as of July 19, 2021 cases Cumulative deaths reported (please note there may 9,296 1.7% be a reporting delay for deaths) Deaths reported in ages: 19 and under 4 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 20-39 84 <0.1% Deaths reported in ages: 40-59 598 0.4% Deaths reported in ages: 60-79 2,975 4.1% Deaths reported in ages: 80 and over 5,634 22.4% Ever in ICU 5,437 1.0% Ever hospitalized 28,190 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. Percentage of deaths reported for each age group is calculated using all cases in the age group as the denominator. Data Source: CCM COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 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 cases per 100,000 case count July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 population Northwestern Health Unit 0 0 1,095 1,248.9 Thunder Bay District Health Unit 0 -1 3,340 2,227.3 TOTAL NORTH WEST 0 -1 4,435 1,866.3 Algoma Public Health 1 0 403 352.2 North Bay Parry Sound District 2 3 637 490.9 Health Unit Porcupine Health Unit 3 2 2,123 2,544.3 Public Health Sudbury & Districts 0 0 2,155 1,082.8 Timiskaming Health Unit 0 0 208 636.3 TOTAL NORTH EAST 6 5 5,526 988.0 Ottawa Public Health 2 2 27,729 2,629.2 Eastern Ontario Health Unit 0 0 4,614 2,210.7 Hastings Prince Edward Public 1 3 1,147 680.7 Health Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox 0 0 1,571 738.5 & Addington Public Health Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District 0 0 1,756 1,014.0 Health Unit Renfrew County and District 0 0 750 690.4 Health Unit TOTAL EASTERN 3 5 37,567 1,950.1 COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 10 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases cases per 100,000 case count July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 population Durham Region Health 4 2 25,309 3,552.6 Department Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge 2 1 2,212 1,170.8 District Health Unit Peel Public Health 17 10 109,782 6,835.9 Peterborough Public Health 1 0 1,624 1,097.5 Simcoe Muskoka District Health 2 0 12,426 2,072.4 Unit York Region Public Health 8 14 52,728 4,301.5 TOTAL CENTRAL EAST 34 27 204,081 4,554.7 Toronto Public Health 18 34 165,600 5,307.1 TOTAL TORONTO 18 34 165,600 5,307.1 Chatham-Kent Public Health 0 0 1,897 1,784.3 Grey Bruce Health Unit 10 10 1,955 1,150.8 Huron Perth Public Health 3 0 1,962 1,403.9 Lambton Public Health 1 2 3,629 2,771.0 Middlesex-London Health Unit 10 0 12,688 2,500.0 Southwestern Public Health 6 1 3,927 1,856.8 Windsor-Essex County Health 1 2 16,870 3,971.0 Unit TOTAL SOUTH WEST 31 15 42,928 2,539.0 Brant County Health Unit 0 3 3,876 2,497.4 City of Hamilton Public Health 14 8 21,450 3,622.3 Services COVID-19 in Ontario: January 15, 2020 to July 19, 2021 11 Change in Change in Cumulative rate Cumulative Public Health Unit Name cases cases per 100,000 case count July 18, 2021 July 19, 2021 population Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit 1 3 2,694 2,361.5 Halton Region Public Health 2 10 17,516 2,829.3 Niagara Region Public Health 3 1 16,311 3,452.2 Region of Waterloo Public Health 16 17 18,198 3,114.2 and Emergency Services Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph 2 0 8,292 2,658.5 Public Health TOTAL CENTRAL WEST 38 42 88,337 3,100.3 TOTAL ONTARIO 130 127 548,474 3,689.8 Notes: Health units with data corrections or updates could result in records being removed from totals, leading to negative or zero counts.