The London region continues to see few new cases of COVID-19, following a one day spike reported over the weekend.
The Middlesex London Health Unit said two more people tested positive for the virus on Monday. That is up from zero on Sunday, but considerably less than the 12 recorded on Saturday.
The area's total number of cases since the start of the pandemic now sits at 709.
Three more infected individuals have recovered from the virus, bringing the number of resolved cases to 625.
There were no additional deaths or new institutional outbreaks confirmed over the past 24 hours. The death toll has been unchanged at 57 since June 12.
For the second straight day, Elgin and Oxford counties had no new COVID-19 cases. The two days of zero are the first this month that the region hasn't seen its case count rise. The two counties have a total of 228 cases, with 85 of those infections recorded since the start of the month. The number of resolved cases when up by ten over the last 24 hour period to 191. There has not been a COVID-19 related death in Elgin or Oxford since July 3.
Woodstock's Woodingford Lodge is back open for visits and new admissions after it was confirmed an employee who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month never actually had the virus.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit for Oxford and Elgin, informed the care home on Monday that the worker's test results from August 9 were a false positive.
"We are relieved that there was no risk to our residents or other employees," Woodingford Lodge Director Mark Dager said in a statement. "We will always act with an abundance of caution to protect those in our care during the COVID-19 pandemic."
There were less than 100 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Ontario on Monday.
Public health officials said 99 more people tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours. That is up from 81 new cases on Sunday. However, it is the second consecutive day Ontario has had fewer than 100 daily cases.
Twenty-nine of the province's 34 public health units reported five or fewer cases on Monday, including 21 that recorded no new cases.
Ontario's case count currently sits at 40,745.
There have not been any additional deaths related to COVID-19 in the province since Saturday. That leaves the death toll at 2,789.
The number of recoveries rose to 37,036.
