Situation Report # 177: Covid-19 / Situation Report n o 177: Covid-19

July 20, 2020

Situation:

* Numbers from PHAC current as of 7 pm yesterday / Chiffres de l’ASPC à jour à 19h yesterday

** Ontario current as of 8:00 am today / Ontario figures updated at 8:00 am today

Ontario:

iPHIS = integrated Public Health Information System; PHO = Public Health Ontario; NOC = COVID19 Provincial Diagnostic Network Operations Center; CCSO = Critical Care Services Ontario; dBCS = Daily Bed Census; CRCI = COVID-Related Critical Illness (COVID-Related Critical Illness (CRCI) is defined as: Admission to the ICU because of a clinical syndrome consistent with COVID AND the patient has had a positive test that is consistent with acute COVID illness. COVID + is a sub-set of CRCI patients whose last COVID test was positive.) MLTC = Ministry of Long-Term Care; RHRA = Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority; SOLGEN = Ministry of the Solicitor General.

* Mode of acquisition is identified following the public health investigation and may not be available at the time the case is reported. Reported numbers should not be interpreted as mode of acquisition for the previous day’s case count. The mode of acquisition is updated twice per week.

** Effective reproduction number (Rt) is updated twice weekly and not daily. Rt is not calculated for PHU Regions with case counts <12 over the reporting period.

SIISP = Integrated Public Health Information System; PHO = Public Health Ontario; COR = Provincial COVID-19 Diagnostic Network Operations Center; SOSMPC = Ontario Critical Care Services; RqL = Daily inventory of beds; MGLC = serious illness related to COVID-19 (a serious illness related to COVID-19 means a disease leading to admission to intensive care because of a clinical syndrome corresponding to COVID-19 AND the result screening is consistent with an active COVID-19 COVID + is a secondary series of patients whose last screening for COVID was positive.) MSLD = Ministry of Long-Term Care; ORMR = Regulatory Office for Retirement Homes; MSG = Ministry of the Solicitor General.

* The mode of acquisition is determined following a public health investigation and may not be available when reporting the case. The reported figures should not be interpreted as being those corresponding to the mode of acquisition of the number of cases of the previous day.

** The effective reproduction rate (Re) is updated twice a week, not daily. Re is not calculated for the regions served by BSPs recording <12 cases during the period covered by the report.

Data are provided in English format / The format of the numbers is the Anglo-Saxon format

Update:

• The Ontario government is allowing seven more regions to enter Stage 3 on Friday, increasing the number of businesses and public spaces that will reopen across the province. This decision was made in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and is based on positive local trends of key public health indicators, including lower or low transmission of COVID-19, ongoing hospital capacity, public health capacity to conduct rapid case and contact management , and a significant increase in testing.