For the seventh straight day, the number of new COVID-19 cases recorded in the London region was in the double-digits.
The Middlesex London Health Unit reported 14 new infections on Monday, up from 11 on Sunday. Daily COVID-19 case increases have now been above ten for the past week. The last time there was a single-digit increase was last Monday when just seven new cases were confirmed.
The area’s total case count stands at 14,505 since the pandemic began.
There has not been an additional COVID-19 related death locally since October 21, when a man in his 70s succumbed to the virus. The death toll remains at 245.
Resolved cases in the city and county are up by 20 to 14,131. Currently, there are 129 active cases in the region, down seven since the previous day.
Wilberforce Public School in Lucan is closed this week because of an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. There are 15 cases affecting several classrooms at the school. Students will learn online until at least next Monday. Other schools dealing with outbreaks are Clara Brenton Public and St. Nicholas Senior Catholic in London. Those schools remain open. An outbreak at Covenant Christian School was deemed over on Saturday.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is reporting eight patients with COVID-19 in its care, up two from Friday. Five or fewer of those patients are listed in intensive care and none are at Children’s Hospital. The LHSC currently has five or fewer staffers who have tested positive for the virus.
Of the 599 people in the London region who have contracted the virus over the past six weeks, 60.8 per cent were not vaccinated, 4.8 per cent were partially vaccinated, 2.8 per cent had received the vaccine but it had not yet taken effect, and 31.6 per cent were fully vaccinated. The unvaccinated or partially vaccinated account for 78.3 per cent of local hospitalizations.
Southwestern Public Health has recorded another COVID-19 death. An 85-year-old Aylmer man is the latest person in Elgin and Oxford County to succumb to the virus. The death is the first to be reported in the area since last Wednesday and increased the death toll to 92. The number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the two counties on Monday was 53. That number includes infections identified both Saturday and Sunday, as Southwestern Public Health does not update its COVID-19 dashboard on weekends. The latest cases bring the two counties total case count to 4,706. The health unit said the total number of resolved cases in the area is 4,519, leaving 95 known active cases. As of Sunday, 86.6 per cent of all people in the two counties 12 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, 83.2 per cent have been given both shots.
Provincially, the total number of COVID-19 cases confirmed since the pandemic began surpassed 600,000 on Monday.
Public health officials reported 422 new infections over the past 24 hours. That is up from 340 on Sunday, and 356 on Saturday. The latest cases were enough to push Ontario's total case count since the start of the pandemic to 600,377.
Of the 422 cases recorded over the past 24 hours, 225 were reportedly among unvaccinated people, 13 involved partially vaccinated people, and 161 were fully vaccinated people. There were 23 COVID-positive individuals whose vaccination status was not known.
Three additional COVID-19 related deaths were reported on Monday, increasing the death toll to 9,874.
At hospitals in Ontario, there are 134 patients with COVID-19, up 30 from Sunday. The total number of patients in the intensive care unit is unchanged at 133 and the number of patients on ventilators is also unchanged at 108.
The number of resolved cases rose by 275 to 587,344. There are currently 3,159 known active cases of the virus in Ontario.
The province has administered 22,522,144 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as of Sunday night. More than 88 per cent of Ontarians 12 and older have received one dose of the vaccine, while 84.5 per cent have been given their second dose to be considered fully inoculated.
