TORONTO – April 20, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,136,598 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 4,825 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 23,707 total deaths, 40 more than on Monday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,024,883. Ontario yesterday reached 424,911 overall positives, an increase of 3,469 new cases compared to Monday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,757, with 22 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 374,213 or 3,369 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 39,276 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 105 of the South African variant and 211 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 2,360 people still in hospital, 773 of them in intensive care – a new record high – and 537 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 36 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,111 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, 6,903 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 135,575 positives yesterday, with an increase of 1,071 cases compared to Monday. Meanwhile, there were 2,943 total deaths in the city, with 6 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 118,602 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 42,111 total infections yesterday, with 403 more positives than on Monday and 583 victims since the start of the pandemic, with no more deaths since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 36,892 people were recovered, while 77 people were still in hospital, 10 of them in intensive care.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 was 17,579 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 133 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 231 deaths, with no more new deaths recorded yesterday, while 15,369 people were cured. 34 were hospitalized, 4 of them in intensive care.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 7,547 total cases of positivity since the Covid-19 pandemic started, 4,856 in Maple, 5,976 in Richmond Hill and 10,198 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 85,724 coronavirus positives, 761 more than the last survey and 668 total victims, with 2 more deaths than on the last bulletin. There were 79,679 healings recorded in total, while 2,338 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 30,425 yesterday, 253 more than last Monday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 394 victims so far, with no more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 28,122 people recovered from Covid-19 and 1,108 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 51,504 with 446 new cases of contagion more than on Monday. 259 confirmed deaths, with 2 more victims in the previous 24 hours, while 48,114 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 3,431 registered infections yesterday, 41 more than on Monday, while 3,170 had recovered and 14 victims overall, with no more deaths.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 15,557, with 40 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 348, with 2 more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 22,224 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 186 positives compared to the last survey, while 483 people died, with one more new death recorded since the last bulletin. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 18,381.
In Quebec yesterday there were 1,136 new registered cases, for a total of 339,180 infected, along with 4 additional deaths per 10,833 total victims.
