London Ontario – BlackburnNews.com 2021-11-06 12:53:44

A dozen new cases of COVID-19 were reported Saturday by the Middlesex London Health Unit, for the second day in a row.

The number of active COVID-19 cases in the community is 98. There has now been a total of 14,545 confirmed cases in the London area since the start of the pandemic. There have also been 14,201 cases that are considered to be resolved.

No deaths were reported Saturday, leaving the COVID-19 death toll in London and Middlesex County at 246.

As of Friday, the London Health Sciences Centre said it is caring for five or fewer patients with COVID-19. The hospital uses the “five or fewer” figure when the number of patients gets low enough that giving an exact number might compromise patient privacy.

Officials with the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) reported two new COVID-19 outbreaks on Friday.

The outbreaks are at Huron Park Secondary School in Woodstock, which now has three active cases, and McGregor Public School in Aylmer, which also has three cases.

There are now four TVDSB schools dealing with outbreaks. Wilberforce Public School is the only school that closed due to the number of active cases it reached, earlier this week.

In Elgin and Oxford counties, 32 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Friday. That brings Southwestern Public Health’s total number of confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic to 4,779. No new deaths have been reported. There are 121 active cases in the two counties.

Across Ontario, 508 cases of COVID-19 were reported Saturday. The Ministry of Health also reported three more virus-related deaths today which occurred in the last month.

There are currently 203 patients with the virus in hospitals across the province and 130 in intensive care units.

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