TORONTO – April 22, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,152,717 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 5,253 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 23,811 total deaths, 48 more than on Wednesday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,044,255. Ontario yesterday reached 432,805 overall positives, an increase of 3,682 new cases compared to Wednesday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,829, with 40 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 383,014 or 4,597 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 44,205 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 113 of the South African variant and 218 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 2,350 people still in hospital, 806 of them in intensive care – a new record high – and 588 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 37 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,117 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, 6,909 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 138,007 positives yesterday, with an increase of 1,243 cases compared to Wednesday. Meanwhile, there were 2,976 total deaths in the city, with 6 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 121,259 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 42,920 total infections yesterday, with 393 more positives than on Wednesday and 585 victims since the start of the pandemic, with one more death since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 39,282 people were recovered, while 28 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 17,900 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 179 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 233 deaths, with one more new death recorded yesterday, while 16,407 people were cured. 4 were hospitalized, 2 of them in intensive care.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 7,680 total cases of positivity since the Covid-19 pandemic started, 4,979 in Maple, 6,107 in Richmond Hill and 10,380 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 87,442 coronavirus positives, 1.187 more than the last survey and 673 total victims, with 2 more deaths than on the last bulletin. There were 81,228 healings recorded in total, while 2,399 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 31,082 yesterday, 417 more than last Wednesday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 396 victims so far, with one more death recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 28,707 people recovered from Covid-19 and 1,133 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 52,511 with 280 new cases of contagion more than on Wednesday. 262 confirmed deaths, with one more victim in the previous 24 hours, while 49,027 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 3,496 registered infections yesterday, 43 more than on Wednesday, while 3,244 had recovered and 14 victims overall, with no more deaths.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 15,986, with 128 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 350, with one more new death recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 22,686 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 281 positives compared to the last survey, while 486 people died, with 2 more new deaths recorded since the last bulletin. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 19,021.
In Quebec yesterday there were 1,248 new registered cases, for a total of 341,645 infected, along with 7 additional deaths per 10,845 total victims.
