There has been another COVID-19 death recorded in the London region.
The Middlesex London Health Unit confirmed Monday a man in his 60s is the latest person in the area to succumb to the virus. The man was associated with a long-term care home. His death increases the local death toll to 426.
Another 191 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases were also reported by the health unit 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 41,744 since the pandemic began.
Resolved cases are up to 40,611 and the number of active cases locally was unchanged 2from Thursday at 707 on Monday.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) said it currently has 39 patients with the virus in its care. That is a decrease of four since Thursday. According to hospital officials, 13 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the remaining 26 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 no inpatients with the virus for the first time in three weeks.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive went up by one on Monday. There are now 122 infected staffers at the LHSC.
There are just two ongoing level two COVID-19 outbreaks at University Hospital – one on the U5 Cardiology unit, the other on 6IP Cardiac Surgery.
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.
