Ontario Public Health has reported an additional 485 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, a reduction over yesterday’s increase.
The province also announced an additional 36 deaths attributed to the virus.
There have now been 10,010 cases confirmed in total in Ontario since the pandemic began, and of those, 4,875 (48.7 per cent) have recovered and 514 (5.1 per cent) have died.
There are currently 828 patients hospitalized, and, of those, 250 are in intensive care units and 197 are on ventilators.
Of the total 10,010 cases confirmed positive in Ontario, 43 per cent of them have been people over 60 and 12.4 per cent have been hospitalized with 3.4 per cent of the total cases in the province requiring intensive care. Five per cent of Ontario’s confirmed COVID-19 cases have died.
In total there have been 1,222 (12.2 per cent) cases where the person infected had a history of travel, 1,789 (17.9 per cent) where the transmission is attributed to close contact, and 2,816 (28.1 per cent) deemed community transmission. Transmission information for the remaining 4,183 (41.8 per cent) cases are listed as “pending.”
There were 9,462 tests processed yesterday and there are 6,833 awaiting results.
There are now 108 outbreaks confirmed in long-term care homes in Ontario and 31 at hospitals.
There are 1,322 confirmed cases reported among residents and patients at long term care homes, and there have been 233 deaths of long-term care patients and residents attributed to COVID-19.
Epidemiological curve graphs showing the number of confirmed cases by date of symptom onset and by date reported show an increase from March to April, and an overall plateau in April so far, however, data from the last two weeks may not reflect cases transmitted during that time as symptoms may not yet have appeared.
The case breakdown for towns and cities (including those who have died or recovered) is as follows: Bradford W-G (50), Barrie (45), New Tecumseth (18), Orillia (10), Collingwood (8), Innisfil (6), Springwater (5), Midland (4), Wasaga Beach (6), Oro-Medonte (4), Adjala-Tosorontio (3), Clearview (2), Essa (3), Ramara (2), Tiny (2), Penetanguishene (2) for a total of 170 cases in Simcoe County.
There are also 15 confirmed positive cases in Muskoka.
In Simcoe Muskoka the infection rate per 100,000 people is 29.5, the provincial average is 67.3 per 100,000 people.
