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Another four new COVID cases in Sarnia-Lambton

Sarnia-Lambton's health unit reported another four new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, following an increase of five Monday.

Lambton Public Health also added three more recovered cases over the past 24 hours, leaving the active case count at 25, up one.

Since March, there have been 456 confirmed cases of the virus locally, 405 recoveries, and 26 deaths.

As of Monday, Sarnia's Bluewater Health was reporting three COVID-positive patients in hospital, including two in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

There are two outbreaks ongoing at the NOVA Chemicals cracker expansion project at Corunna and at the Shell Canada plant in Corunna. On Tuesday, the health unit reported an additional case connected to the outbreak at NOVA, for a total of four.

Sarnia-Lambton remains in the yellow “protect” level in the province’s COVID-19 response framework.

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