TORONTO – April 26, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,183,678 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 4,691 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 23,998 total deaths, 33 more than on Sunday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,074,373. Ontario yesterday reached 448,861 overall positives, an increase of 3,510 new cases compared to Sunday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,935, with 24 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 400,340 or 4,057 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 54,436 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 162 of the South African variant and 351 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 2,271 people still in hospital, 877 of them in intensive care – a new record high – and 605 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 35 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,132 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, 6,929 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 142,702 positives yesterday, with an increase of 1,101 cases compared to Sunday. Meanwhile, there were 3,023 total deaths in the city, with 12 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 126,202 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 44,531 total infections yesterday, with 411 more positives than on Sunday and 591 victims since the start of the pandemic, with no more deaths since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 41,081 people were recovered.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 was 18,569 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 158 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 234 deaths, with no more new deaths recorded yesterday, while 17,168 people were cured.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 7,931 total cases of positivity since the Covid-19 pandemic started, 5,146 in Maple, 6,342 in Richmond Hill and 10,716 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 91,034 coronavirus positives, 683 more than the last survey and 692 total victims, with 4 more deaths than on the last bulletin. There were 84,684 healings recorded in total, while 2,500 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 32,472 yesterday, 290 more than last Sunday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 400 victims so far, with one more death recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 29,987 people recovered from Covid-19 and 1,187 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 54,574 with 378 new cases of contagion more than on Sunday. 277 confirmed deaths, with 3 more victims since the last bulletin, while 51,047 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 3,643 registered infections yesterday, 24 more than on Sunday, while 3,386 had recovered and 14 victims overall, with no more deaths.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 16,463, with 107 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 353, with no more new death recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 23,503 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 190 positives compared to the last survey, while 495 people died, with 5 more new deaths recorded since the last bulletin. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 20,326.
In Quebec yesterday there were 889 new registered cases, for a total of 345,697 infected, along with 8 additional deaths per 10,886 total victims.
