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TORONTO – April 8, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,033,300 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 7,798 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 23,206 total deaths, 38 more than on Wednesday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 946,839. Ontario yesterday reached 374,112 overall positives, an increase of 3,215 new cases compared to Wednesday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,494, with 19 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 338,559 or 2,576 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 9,632 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 75 of the South African variant and 131 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 1,417 people still in hospital, 525 of them in intensive care and 331 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 49 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,072 elderly patients infected in total since the beginning of the emergency and 3,755 total deaths so far recorded among guests of the same facilities. Until yesterday, 6,856 health workers were infected in the same nursing homes and 11 died.
The city of Toronto has recorded, since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 120,557 positives yesterday, with an increase of 1,010 cases compared to Wednesday. Meanwhile, there were 2,837 total deaths in the city, with 7 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 107,935 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 36,239 total infections yesterday, with 394 more positives than on Wednesday and 564 victims since the start of the pandemic, with no more deaths since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 33,166 people were recovered, while 44 people were still in hospital, 8 of them in intensive care.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 was 15,332 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 157 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 226 deaths, with no more new deaths recorded yesterday, while 13,977 people were cured. 21 were hospitalized, 3 of them in intensive care.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 6,600 cases of positivity, 4,101 in Maple, 5,041 in Richmond Hill and 9,029 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 76,151 coronavirus positives, 737 more than the last survey and 649 total victims, with no more deaths than on Wednesday. There were 71,389 healings recorded in total, while 2,059 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 26,901 yesterday, 269 more than last Wednesday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 385 victims so far, with one more death recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 24,983 people recovered from Covid-19 and 998 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 45,973 with 408 new cases of contagion more than on Wednesday. 249 confirmed deaths, with no more victims in the previous 24 hours, while 43,419 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 2,968 registered infections yesterday, 42 more than on Wednesday, while 2,760 had recovered and 14 victims overall, with no more deaths.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 13,687, with 52 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 332, with 2 more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 18,788 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 156 positives compared to the last survey, while 470 people died, with no more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 16,370.
In Quebec yesterday there were 1.609 new registered cases, for a total of 321,411 infected, along with 9 additional deaths per 10,718 total victims.
