TORONTO – May 3, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,238,850 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 4,669 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 24,320 total deaths, 24 more than on Sunday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,131,095. Ontario yesterday reached 473,901 overall positives, an increase of 3,436 new cases compared to Sunday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 8,118, with 16 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 428,786 or 3,623 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 72,313 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 291 of the South African variant and 875 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 1,925 people still in hospital, 889 of them in intensive care and 611 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 50 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,169 elderly patients infected in total since the beginning of the emergency and 3,919 total deaths so far recorded among guests of the same facilities. Until yesterday, 6,969 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 150,403 positives yesterday, with an increase of 985 cases compared to Sunday. Meanwhile, there were 3,096 total deaths in the city, with no new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 134,611 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 46,909 total infections yesterday, with 400 more positives than on Sunday and 616 victims since the start of the pandemic, with 3 more deaths since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 44,076 people were recovered.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 was 19,456 yesterday, or 41% of the entire York Region, with 129 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 244 deaths, with 2 more new deaths recorded yesterday, while 18,375 people were cured.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 8,290 total cases of positivity since the Covid-19 pandemic started, 5,429 in Maple, 6,665 in Richmond Hill and 11,274 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 96,411 coronavirus positives, 627 more than the last survey and 706 total victims, with 2 more deaths than on the last bulletin. There were 90,610 healings recorded in total, while 2,639 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 34,501 yesterday, 223 more than last Sunday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 405 victims so far, with one more death recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 32,199 people recovered from Covid-19 and 1,246 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 57,704 with 387 new cases of contagion more than on Sunday. 283 confirmed deaths, with no more victims since the last bulletin, while 54,517 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 3,889 registered infections yesterday, 22 more than on Sunday, while 3,625 had recovered and 15 victims overall, with one more death.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 17.681, with 152 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 360, with no more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 24,657 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 139 positives compared to the last survey, while 510 people died, with one more new death recorded since the last bulletin. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 22,235.
In Quebec yesterday there were 798 new registered cases, for a total of 352,678 infected, along with 2 additional deaths per 10,944 total victims.
