The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

FRIDAY 2021-01-29

Waterloo Region reported 86 new cases today (13.7% of the active cases) and one less for yesterday for a total of 49; 489 new cases for the week (-34), averaging 9.5% of active cases! 607 active cases, -262 in the last seven days.

An average of 1,850 tests per day for the past week, for a positively pleasing positivity rate of 3.78%.

Ontario reported 1,837 new cases today with a seven-day average of 2,011 (-118). 2,900 recoveries and 58 deaths translated to a drop of 1,121 active cases and a new total of 20,357. -4,906 active cases for the week and 371 deaths (53 per day). 69,040 tests for a positivity rate of 2.66%, the lowest since early November. The positivity rate is averaging 4.10% for the past seven days, compared to 4.89% for the preceding seven.

360 patients in ICU (+2 today, -23 for the week), and 1,291 total hospital beds in use (-221 for the week).

• 83 cases in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph: 30.5 per 100K
  
• 295 cases in Peel: 21.3 per 100K
  
• 595 cases in Toronto: 20.3 per 100K
  
• 24 cases in Thunder Bay: 16.0 per 100K
  
• 170 cases in York: 15.3 per 100K
  
• 91 cases in Waterloo: 14.7 per 100K (based on provincial reporting)
  
• 64 cases in Niagara: 14.3 per 100K
  
• 15 cases in Chatham-Kent: 14.2 per 100K
  
• 24 cases in Southwestern Ontario: 12.0 per 100K
  
• 48 cases in Middlesex-London: 11.9 per 100K
  
• 45 cases in Windsor-Essex: 11.6 per 100K
  
• 58 cases in Simcoe-Muskoka: 10.7 per 100K
  
• 54 cases in Halton: 9.8 per 100K
  
• 53 cases in Hamilton: 9.2 per 100K
  
• 59 cases in Durham: 9.1 per 100K
  
• 9 cases in Lambton: 6.9 per 100K
  
• 9 cases in Brant: 6.6 per 100K
  
• 53 cases in Ottawa: 5.3 per 100K
  
• 4 cases in Huron Perth: 4.1 per 100K
  
• 8 cases in Eastern Ontario: 3.9 per 100K
  

I am quite happy to see the trend in the positivity rate (below) ...