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[GTranslate]TORONTO – March 22, 2021: Canada yesterday stood at 936,273 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 3,221 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 22,695 total deaths, 22 more than on Sunday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 878,069. Ontario yesterday reached 330,573 overall positives, an increase of 1,699 new cases compared to Sunday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,244, with 3 more deaths than the previous day, the lowest number of victims in 2021 so far. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 308,578 or 1.175 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 1.340 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 48 of the South African variant and 36 of the Brazilian variant.

Yesterday there were 813 people still in the hospital, 298 of them in intensive care and 186 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 56 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,009 elderly patients infected in total since the beginning of the emergency and 3,753 total deaths so far recorded among guests of the same facilities. Until yesterday, 6,782 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 106,463 positives yesterday, with an increase of 509 cases compared to Sunday. Meanwhile, there were 2,759 total deaths in the city, with no new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours.

The York Region reached 31,487 total infections yesterday, with 158 more positives than on Saturday and 549 victims since the start of the pandemic, with no more deaths in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, 29,834 people were recovered, while 24 people were still in the hospital, 5 of them in intensive care.

In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people who tested positive for Covid-19 was 13,263 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 59 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 223 deaths, with no more new casualties, recorded yesterday, while 12,593 people were cured. 8 were hospitalized, one of them in intensive care.

At Woodbridge yesterday there were 5,630 cases of positivity, 3,526 in Maple, 4.247 in Richmond Hill and 8.050 in Markham.

In the Peel Region yesterday there were 67,888 coronavirus positives, 327 more than the last survey and 631 total victims, with no more deaths than on Sunday. There were 65,073 healings recorded in total, while 1,865 people were hospitalized.

In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 23,816 yesterday, 142 more than last Sunday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 379 victims so far, with no more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 22,675 people recovered from Covid-19 and 916 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.

In Brampton, the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 40,985, with 166 new cases of contagion more than on Sunday. 235 confirmed deaths, with no more victims in the previous 24 hours, while 39,513 were found to be healed yesterday.

In Caledon, there were 2,578 registered infections yesterday, 10 more than on Sunday, while 2,450 had recovered and 13 victims overall, with no more deaths.

In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 11,932, with 93 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 300, with no more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Finally, there were 10,736 total recoveries.

In Ottawa, 16,188 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 81 positives compared to the last survey, while 456 people died, with 2 more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 14,973.

In Quebec yesterday there were 712 new registered cases, for a total of 303,051 infected, along with 15 additional deaths per 10,614 total victims.