As of 2 p.m. on April 7, there were 1,435 COVID-19 cases in Western and Southwestern Ontario, including 53 deaths. Ontario’s case load is growing rapidly. On March 1, Ontario had 15 cases of COVID-19.
Ontario’s youngest death from COVID-19 was of a 41-year-old man with pre-existing conditions, who died at St. Mary’s General Hospital on March 31.
The vast majority of people who died were elderly, at least in their 70s, and many lived in retirement homes or long-term care facilities.
Here’s what we know about 31 of those deaths:
• March 15: Man in his 70s from Barrie
• March 17: Man in his 70s from Barrie
• March 18: 51-year-old Milton man, at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital
• March 24: Woman in her 70s from Orillia
• March 24: 80-year-old woman at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton
• March 26: Former retirement-home resident at West Haldimand General Hospital
• March 26: Person in their 80s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 27: Person in their 80s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 27: Man in his 80s from Orillia
• March 28: Woman in her 80s from Elgin
• March 29: Person in their 80s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 29: Person in their 70s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 30: 88-year-old woman at Heritage Green nursing home in Hamilton
• March 30: A man in his 60s at Stratford General Hospital
• March 31: Individual in their 80s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 31: Individual in their 70s at Bluewater Health Hospital
• March 31: Man in his 80s with “underlying chronic problems” at Windsor Regional Hospital
• March 31: Woman in her 90s in the Middlesex-London region
• March 31: Woman in her 80s in the Middlesex-London region
• March 31: A 41-year-old man with pre-existing conditions at St. Mary’s General Hospital
• April 1: Woman in her 70s from Elgin
• April 1: Man with an underlying condition at St. Mary’s General Hospital
• April 2: Person in their 80s in Guelph
• April 2: Woman in her 60s with pre-existing conditions in Brant County
• April 2: “Elderly” woman from Oakville
• April 3: A man in his 80s at Country Village Homes, a long-term care facility at Windsor
• April 3: A woman in her 80s at Country Village Homes
• April 4: Woman in her 80s at Chatham-Kent
• April 6: A man living at Highview Residences at Kitchener, which provides “permanent and respite care,” for people with “Alzheimer’s, dementia, and frail elderly”
• April 6: An 89-year-old man in Hamilton
• April 6: An 80-year-old woman in the transitional care unit of the Cardinal Retirement Residence in Hamilton
• April 6: A man in his 70s at Wasaga Beach, northwest of Barrie
