TORONTO – April 18, 2021: Canada stood yesterday at 1,119,682 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 6,412 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 23,490 total deaths, 28 more than on Saturday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 1,008,662. Ontario yesterday reached 416,995 overall positives, an increase of 4,250 new cases compared to Saturday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,716, with 18 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 367,691 or 3,338 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 34,112 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 104 of the South African variant and 207 of the Brazilian variant.
Yesterday there were 2,107 people still in hospital, 741 of them in intensive care – a new record high – and 506 connected to ventilators for assisted breathing. There are 39 retirement and long-term homes that continue to record cases of Covid-19. Yesterday there were 15,105 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, 6,896 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 133,076 positives yesterday, with an increase of 1,466 cases compared to Saturday. Meanwhile, there were 2,931 total deaths in the city, with 13 new victims recorded compared to the previous 24 hours. 116,665 were found to be healed yesterday.
The York Region reached 41,142 total infections yesterday, with 517 more positives than on Saturday and 580 victims since the start of the pandemic, with 7 more deaths since the latest bulletin. Yesterday, 36,164 people were recovered, while 67 people were still in hospital, 8 of them in intensive care.
In the city of Vaughan, the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 was 17,138 yesterday, or 42% of the entire York Region, with 219 more new infections than in the previous 24 hours. 228 deaths, with no more new deaths recorded yesterday, while 15,018 people were cured. 30 were hospitalized, 3 of them in intensive care.
At Woodbridge yesterday there were 7,331 total cases of positivity since the Covid-19 pandemic started, 4,602 in Maple, 5,715 in Richmond Hill and 9,792 in Markham.
In the Peel Region yesterday there were 84,114 coronavirus positives, 915 more than the last survey and 666 total victims, with 8 more death than on the last bulletin. There were 78,009 healings recorded in total, while 2,291 people were hospitalized.
In Mississauga, the total number of people who tested positive for the coronavirus was 29,878 yesterday, 375 more than last Saturday. Also in Mississauga were yesterday 394 victims so far, with 3 more deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, while there were 27,486 people recovered from Covid-19 and 1,089 people so far hospitalized due to the coronavirus.
In Brampton the total number of people positive for Covid-19 was yesterday 50,538 with 486 new cases of contagion more than on Saturday. 257 confirmed deaths, with no more victims in the previous 24 hours, while 47,169 were found to be healed yesterday.
In Caledon, there were 3,358 registered infections yesterday, 42 more than on Saturday, while 3,095 had recovered and 14 victims overall, with no more deaths.
In Hamilton the total number of positives yesterday was 15,303, with 157 new cases of contagion more than in the last testing cycle, while the number of victims so far ascertained was 344, with no more new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
In Ottawa, 21,835 people were infected yesterday, an increase of 283 positives compared to the last survey, while 482 people died, with no more new deaths recorded since the last bulletin. The healed in the capital yesterday were a total of 18,014.
In Quebec yesterday there were 1,344 new registered cases, for a total of 336,952 infected, along with 9 additional deaths per 10,802 total victims.
