Worldwide stats provided by worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 35,437,479. (Deaths: 1,042,344 and Recovered: 26,645,438)
I emphasize reported because there is a wide variance in testing and manner of reporting from country to country and place to place.
As of 6:00 a.m. ET on Monday October 5, 2020:
Health Canada reported 166,156 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 16,432 cases are active, there have been 9,481 deaths and 140,243 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 54,199 total confirmed cases and 2,975 total deaths. 5,405 are active. Currently, there are 169 people are in hospital with 43 of those in ICU. 45,819 cases have been resolved. (Hospitalizations in Ontario are steadily rising and of note, the total capacity number for ICU beds is 350. ICU bed utilization is the number to watch, not the total cases.)
Quebec continues to have the highest reported cases in the country with 78,459. (7,227 are active) Quebec case numbers continue to rise at the highest rate in Canada.
The Region of Durham reported 2,239 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The site reports 0 current outbreaks (Hospitals, LTCF's and Retirement Homes) with 40 outbreaks having been "concluded." Clarington rose to 140 cases. (9 are in isolation, 124 are resolved and 7 people have passed away. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "0")
School and Child Care Center outbreaks are currently at "2." (A public school and a day care centre.)
In international news,
You just can't make this stuff up. Donald took a little drive, yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Malaysian PM quarantines after minister tests positive for COVID-19. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Monday said he will self quarantine for 14 days after a minister who attended a high-level government meeting to discuss coronavirus developments on Saturday tested positive for COVID-19. The Southeast Asian country has seen a steady climb in cases in the past week in the aftermath of an election in the state of Sabah in Borneo on Sept 26. Authorities in Malaysia have warned that coronavirus restrictions may have to be reimposed if the trend continues, amid popular anger towards politicians who have been blamed for the spike.
In national news,
From the doomseeker files, Seven reasons Canada's COVID-19 situation could worsen in the coming weeks. This is not a bright moment in Canada's fight against the novel coronavirus. Nationally, the seven-day average of new COVID-19 diagnoses is as high as it's ever been. On Friday, Ontario announced its highest single-day total of new cases to date. On Saturday, it was Quebec's turn. In Manitoba, nearly two-thirds of all known cases have been logged in the past month. Here are seven reasons why the recent increases in COVID-19 activity in Canada may only be the tip of the iceberg.
HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE RISING
CASES ARE A LAG INDICATOR TOO
THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MAY NOT BE READY
TESTING AND TRACING BACKLOGS
THE VIRUS IS SPREADING INTO NEW AREAS
THE GLOBAL PICTURE
WINTER IS COMING
P.E.I. identifies two new COVID-19 cases; three active cases in the province. Prince Edward Island is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to three. In a news release, P.E.I.'s chief public health officer, Dr. Heather Morrison, confirmed the two new cases are not related to each other. Both cases are men who work in unrelated non-health-care industries and recently travelled outside of Atlantic Canada. One of the men is reported to be in his 20s, while the other man is in his 50s. Both men have been self-isolating at home since they arrived in the province and contact tracing has been completed. Prince Edward Island has had a total of 61 positive COVID-19 cases, all of which have been travel-related.
In Ontario,
Ontario sending staff to help Toronto Public Health after unit suspends individual contact tracing. The province says they will be providing about 200 additional staff to Toronto Public Health (TPH) after the health unit said it is scaling back its contact tracing efforts due to the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases. In an email to CP24 on Sunday night, the premier's office said extra staff will be deployed to TPH in the next four weeks, beginning with onboarding on Monday. "These staff will immediately help TPH reach out to cases, and also provide contact tracing support in the coming weeks," a spokesperson from the Ministry of Health said.
North York school to close for a week after staff assigned to four other schools tested positive for COVID-19. A North York Catholic school will be temporarily closed for a week after a staff member who is also assigned to four other Toronto schools tested positive for COVID-19. Toronto Catholic District School Board confirmed the closure of St. Charles Catholic School, located near Dufferin Street and Lawrence Avenue West, on Sunday evening. The board tweeted that “out of an abundance of caution,” the school will shut down from Oct. 5 to Oct. 9 “as a result of a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and discussions with Toronto Public Health.”
In local news,
The Region of Durham is now reporing numbers on the weekends, again. (They had stopped reporting on weekends when the numbers were low.) Durham’s health department is reporting 12 new COVID-19 cases. Sunday’s update also comes with 26 more resolved cases. Hence, the active case count has lowered to 105. Two people are in hospital; one is in intensive care. The rest are isolating at home. To date, there have been 2,239 cases confirmed in the region. Of those, 1,953 are listed as resolved. Here is the regional breakdown as of Sunday:
Pickering — 19 active cases (one new), 694 total
Ajax — 36 active cases (six new), 634 total
Whitby — 19 active cases, 276 total
Oshawa — 16 active cases (four new), 342 total
Clarington — nine active cases (one new), 140 total
Uxbridge — one active case, 112 total
Scugog — one active cases, 25 total
Brock — four active cases, 16 total
As a second COVID-19 wave continues, the Durham District School Board (DDSB) is reminding parents of the next virtual transfer deadline. As described in a board trustee meeting on September 21, they’re still getting applications to move students between in-class and virtual learning (and vice versa). Any elementary student who applies by Monday, October 5 will be put on a waitlist. Successful applicants will be transfered on or before November 16. If you miss Monday’s deadline, you can apply for another waitlist. That list closes on January 7, with students being transfered on or before February 1. These deadlines only apply to elementary students.
Musing,
“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.” (EPICTETUS)
Sometimes, the hardest things we do, we do out of love. (me)
I'm betting schools we be closed by Halloween. Any takers?
Have you ever....noticed the worst speeders in school zones are parents that are late dropping their kids off?
Did you know.....the Oxford Companion to Food, deduced that there was in fact a real "Betty" of African-American descent for which the dish "Apple Betty" is named.
On this day in history, on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc., which revolutionized the computer, music and mobile communications industries with such devices as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad, dies at age 56 of complications from pancreatic cancer.
In 1813, Shawnee chief Tecumseh is defeated.
During the War of 1812, a combined British and Native American force is defeated by General William Harrison’s American army at the Battle of the Thames near Ontario, Canada. The leader of the Native forces was Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief who organized intertribal resistance to the encroachment of white settlers on Native lands. He was killed in the fighting.
Today is - NATIONAL DO SOMETHING NICE DAY – NATIONAL APPLE BETTY DAY – NATIONAL GET FUNKY DAY – NATIONAL CHILD HEALTH DAY – NATIONAL CONSIGNMENT DAY – NATIONAL RHODE ISLAND DAY
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