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Giorgio Mitolo – Reporter
[GTranslate]TORONTO – Canada yesterday stood at 886,272 positive for Covid-19, an increase of 2,186 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 22,239 total deaths, 26 more than on Saturday. In Canada yesterday there were 834,067 people healed from the coronavirus. Ontario yesterday reached 308,296 overall positives, an increase of 1,299 new cases compared to Saturday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,067, with 15 more deaths than the previous day. Healed people in the province rose to 290,840, or 1,105 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 828 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 31 of the South African variant and 13 of the Brazilian one.
Yesterday there were 606 people still in the hospital, 273 of them in intensive care and 179 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 84 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 14,980 elderly patients infected in total since the beginning of the emergency and 3,748 total deaths so far recorded among guests of the same facilities. Until yesterday, 6,689 health workers were infected in the same nursing homes and 11 died.
The city of Toronto is now close to one hundred thousand positives in total – recorded since the beginning of the pandemic – reaching 99,506 yesterday, an increase of 393 cases compared to Saturday. Meanwhile, there were 2,688 total deaths in the city, with 8 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours.
The York Region reached 29,409 total infections yesterday, with 133 more positives than on Saturday and 531 victims since the start of the pandemic, with 2 new deaths in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, 28,091 people were healed, while 133 people were still in the hospital, 21 of them in intensive care.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people who tested positive for Covid-19 was 12,399 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 49 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 219 deaths, with no new casualties, recorded yesterday, while 11,847 people were cured. 53 were hospitalized, 8 of them in intensive care.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 5,276 cases of positivity, 3,278 in Maple, 3,899 in Richmond Hill and 7,660 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 63,681 coronavirus positives, 335 more than the last survey and 625 total victims, with 4 more deaths than on Saturday. There were 61,532 healings recorded in total, while 1,765 were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 22,752 yesterday, 119 more than last Saturday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 381 victims so far ascertained, with a new death recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 21,822 people cured of Covid-19 and 871 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton, the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 38,988, with 211 new cases of contagion more than on Wednesday and equal to 60.6% of the entire Peel Region. 235 confirmed deaths, with 2 more victims, while 37,818 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 2,779 registered infections yesterday, 15 more than on Saturday, while 2,674 were healed and 17 victims overall.
In Hamilton, the total number of positives was yesterday 10,801, with 79 new cases of contagion more than in the last detection, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 287, with a new death. Finally, there were 9,909 total healed.
In Ottawa, 15,110 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 56 positive compared to the last survey, while 442 people died, with no new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 14,166.
In Quebec yesterday there were 707 new registered cases, for a total of 292,631 infected, along with 7 additional deaths per 10,472 total victims.