September 23, 2020

by | Sep 23, 2020 | COVID-19 Update

KEY UPDATES

 

FEDERAL

  • Her Excellency The Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, delivered the Speech from the Throne;
  • The Throne Speech focused on the current COVID-19 pandemic and outlined four key priority areas:
  1. Fighting the pandemic and saving lives
  2. Supporting people and businesses through the crisis
  3. Building back better to create a more resilient Canada
  4. Standing up for who we are as Canadians

 PROVINCIAL

  • Premier Ford and Minister of Health Christine Elliott shared the next steps in the province’s comprehensive fall preparedness plan, which includes expanding COVID-19 testing to select pharmacies across the province;

 YORK REGION

  • York Region Public Health has issued a public notice relating to a COVID-19 exposure on two YRT routes on Tuesday, September 15, 2020

 COVID-19 IN YORK REGION:

Below is a summary of the detailed information contained in the Interactive Dashboard – Cases at york.ca/covid19. As of September 23, 2020 at 5 p.m. there are:

3,966 total confirmed cases 37 new cases* since yesterday, 17 confirmed cases in hospital, 2 of which are in Intensive Care 391 cases among health care workers, of which 389 cases have resolved*No new fatalities 254 total confirmed fatalities 3,417 resolved cases 6 active outbreaks under COVID-19 protocols 3 Long-Term Care/Retirement Homes 0 Community Care Settings 0 Hospital 2 Child Care Centre1 School; 9 Schools under surveillance 0 Emergency Housing 77 institutional outbreaks declared over

*Data quality is an ongoing process and may result in the more/less cases reported on a day-over-day basis or other changes to how cases are classified (e.g., municipality, acquisition, etc.). These data quality activities have also resulted in the re-categorization of individuals. Data quality activities do not increase or decrease total case counts.

COMBINED CASE NUMBERS:

As of this morning, there are:

More than 31.4 million total cases worldwide (246,165 new) with cases in 216 countries, area or territories; 967,164 related fatalities reported by the World Health Organization (WHO)146,663 total cases (1,248 new); with 9,234 related fatalities in Canada (6 new); 126,904 resolved in Canada (as of September 22, 7 p.m.)

  • 48,087 total cases (335 new); with 2,835 related fatalities; 41,600 resolved in Ontario

 KING TOWNSHIP

No new cases and we have dropped to 9 Active COVID-19 cases in King