Close to half of Ontario's COVID-19 cases have recovered, as total cases exceed 10,000

There were 79 fewer cases reported today than yesterday

Newmarkettoday.ca
April 20, 2020
Erika Engel

Ontario has 10,010 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and of those, 4,875 -- 48.7 per cent -- have recovered as of April 17.

The province reported an additional 485 confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, less than yesterday’s increase, and 36 additional deaths.

In total, 514 people (5.1 per cent) have died in Ontario.

There are currently 828 patients hospitalized, and, of those, 250 are in intensive care units and 197 are on ventilators.

York Region is reporting a total of 968 confirmed cases and 46 deaths, including a Markham personal support worker who was the first York Region frontline health-care worker to die of COVID-19.

Newmarket now has a total of 81 confirmed cases, with six more cases yesterday, April 17.

The number of COVID-19 outbreaks at community care facilities has increased from 11 to 15, with the addition of Christian Horizon Keswick, Christian Horizon in Richmond Hill, Halsey Lodge Adult Care Facility in Jackson's Point, and Reena Home Lebovic in Thornhill.

The public health unit is reporting a swath of outbreaks across the region -- at 13 long-term care homes and 15 community care settings in Newmarket, Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Keswick, Pefferlaw, Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Markham and Vaughan.

Of the total 10,010 cases confirmed positive in Ontario, 43 per cent of them have been people aged 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.