Both COVID-19 hospitalizations and the number of infected hospital workers in the London area went down over the long weekend.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) said it currently has 40 patients with the virus in its care. That is a decrease of 15 since Thursday. According to hospital officials, 13 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the other 27 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, including five or fewer listed in paediatric critical care.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive dropped by 39 on Tuesday. There are now 96 infected staffers at the LHSC.
There is just one ongoing level two COVID-19 outbreak within the hospital network. It is on the U5 Cardiology unit at University Hospital.
The Middlesex London Health Unit confirmed another 230 new 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 42,168 since the pandemic began.
The COVID-19 death toll was unchanged at 431 with no additional deaths linked to the virus since Thursday.
Resolved cases are up to 41,104 and the number of active cases locally decreased by 51 to 633 on Tuesday.
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.
