The COVID-19 death toll in London and Middlesex County has risen by two since late last week.
The Middlesex London Health Unit confirmed Monday two men in their 90s have succumbed to the virus since last Thursday. Only one of the two was associated with a long-term care home. The deaths increase the local death toll to 448. Twenty-two of those deaths occurred this month.
Another 176 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed by the health unit since it last updated its COVID-19 dashboard last 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 43,047 since the pandemic began.
Resolved cases are up to 42,103. The number of active cases locally increased by 30 to 496 over the past four days.
The health unit’s next scheduled COVID-19 update will be on Thursday.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) said it currently has 47 patients with the virus in its care. That is a decrease of 18 since late last week. According to hospital officials, 21 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the other 26 are being treated for other ailments but have tested positive for COVID.
The intensive care unit has seven infected patients, down from eight last Thursday. At Children’s Hospital, there are five or fewer patients with the virus, none of whom are listed in paediatric critical care.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive dropped by 15 on Tuesday. There are now 77 infected staffers at the LHSC.
One of two level two COVID-19 outbreaks at University Hospital has been resolved. The LHSC declared the outbreak on the U6 CVT Inpatient unit over on Monday. An outbreak remains on the U4 Medicine unit.
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.
