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 in hospital, 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 is 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.
Locally, there are 49 confirmed cases in the Porcupine Health Unit's region.
Today, no new positive tests were confirmed in the Timmins area in the past 24 hours.
The Porcupine Health Unit, which covers Timmins and the surrounding area, continues to have the highest rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population among other health units in Northern Ontario.
According to today's report, which includes data from Jan. 15 to April 17, the number of cases at other Northern Ontario health units, as well as the rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population are:
• Algoma Public Health - 12 cases, rate of 10.5 per 100,000 population
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit - 12 cases, rate of 9.2 per 100,000 population
• Porcupine Health Unit - 48, rate of 57.5 per 100,000 population (the health unit has reported 49 cases in the Timmins area)
• Public Health Sudbury and Districts - 41 cases, rate of 20.6 per 100,000 population
• Timiskaming Health Unit - 10 cases, rate of 30.6 per 100,000
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit - 42 cases, rate of 28 per 100,000 population
• Northwestern Health Unit - 12 cases, rate of 13.7 per 100,000 population
In Northeastern Ontario, there are currently 123 confirmed cases, and the rate is 22 per 100,000 population. In Northwestern Ontario, there are 54 cases and a rate of 22.7. The provincial rate per 100,000 population is 67.3
