The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in London was relatively unchanged over the weekend, but community spread remains high.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) said on Monday it currently has 39 patients with the virus in its care. That is an increase of one since Friday. According to hospital officials, 16 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the other 23 are being treated for other ailments but have tested positive for COVID.
The intensive care unit has five or fewer infected patients. At Children’s Hospital, there are five or fewer inpatients with the virus currently admitted, however, none are listed in paediatric critical care.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive went down by 25 on Monday. There are now 105 infected staffers at the LHSC.
There are two ongoing level two COVID-19 outbreaks at University Hospital – one on the U7 CNS unit, the other on U4 Medicine.
The Middlesex London Health Unit confirmed 214 new COVID-19 cases since it last updated its COVID-19 dashboard on Thursday. 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 40,914 since the pandemic began.
There have been no additional deaths recorded since last Thursday, leaving the local death toll at 419. Resolved cases are up to 39,868 and the number of active cases locally rose by 46 since Thursday to 627 on Monday. That is the highest number of known active cases in the city and county since early May.
The health unit’s next scheduled COVID-19 update will be on Thursday.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit that covers Elgin and Oxford counties, only updates its COVID-19 cases dashboard on Wednesdays, while the province issues its weekly updated numbers on Thursdays.
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