COVID-19 hospitalizations unchanged, 1 death recorded since Friday

While there was one additional COVID-19 death reported in the London area over the weekend, the number of infected people in hospital held steady.

The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) said on Monday it has 48 inpatients in its care being treated for COVID-19, unchanged over the past 72 hours. According to hospital officials, 20 of the COVID positive inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the remaining 28 are being treated for other ailments but have tested positive for COVID.

The intensive care unit has five inpatients with COVID-19, down by four since Friday. The number of inpatients with the virus admitted to Children’s Hospital dropped to five or fewer. When figures were last reported at the end of last week, Children’s had eight COVID-19 positive patients. Of those at Children’s, five or fewer are listed in paediatric critical care.

The number of hospital workers who have tested positive for the virus saw a significant decrease on Monday. There are 163 infected staffers at the LHSC, down 51 over the past 72 hours.

The Middlesex London Health Unit recorded one additional COVID-19 death and 173 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend.

The latest death was recorded on Saturday. There were no additional deaths added to the count on Sunday or Monday. The local death toll since the pandemic began is now 376, with 15 of those deaths occurring last month.

There were 43 new cases recorded on Monday, 44 new cases on Sunday, and 86 new cases on Saturday. However, public health officials caution that single-day case numbers are an underestimate of community spread due to eligibility changes that limit who can receive a test.

The area’s total case count stands at 37,008 since the pandemic began. Resolved cases are up to 35,795. The number of active cases locally went down by 33 since Friday to 837 on Monday.

Southwestern Public Health, the health unit that covers Elgin and Oxford counties, reported 83 new cases since Friday. The latest infections bring the two counties’ total case count to 13,407. There were no additional deaths recorded over the weekend, leaving the death toll unchanged at 161. The health unit said the total number of resolved cases in the area is 12,873. There are 375 known active cases locally.

Provincially, COVID-19 hospitalizations saw a slight increase on Monday.

There are currently 1,423 people with the virus in hospital, up 13 from Sunday. A week ago there were 1,455 COVID positive people in Ontario hospitals. Intensive care unit (ICU) admissions increased by seven to 211. While both hospitalizations and ICU numbers are up, they could actually be higher than what was released Monday as not all hospitals report over the weekend, public health officials reminded.

Ontario logged 1,275 new infections over the past 24 hours. But single-day case counts are considered to be an underestimation of community spread as the Ford government continues to restrict eligibility for publicly-funded COVID-19 tests. The latest cases put Ontario’s total case count since the start of the pandemic to 1,261,655.

Public health officials said there were zero COVID-19 deaths on Monday. It is the first time since the start of April no additional COVID-19 were recorded. The provincial death toll since the pandemic began two years ago stands at 12,842.

The number of resolved cases are up by 2,292 to 1,219,640.

In the last 24 hour period, 11,849 COVID-19 tests were processed. Ontario’s positivity rate is now 14 per cent, down from 15.3 per cent a week ago.

There have been 32,782,620 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in Ontario as of Sunday night. Figures indicate 93 per cent of Ontarians 12 and older have received one dose of the vaccine, while 91.1 per cent have been given their second dose. To date, more than 7.3 million Ontarians have received a booster shot.


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