There have been four additional COVID-19 related deaths in the London region since last Thursday, according to the Middlesex London Health Unit.
Two men in their 70s and 80s and two women in their 60s and 90s are the latest people in the city and county to succumb to the virus, the health unit said on Monday. There have now been 19 COVID-19 deaths in the region this month. The four latest deaths increase the local death toll to 467.
There have also been 197 new COVID-19 cases 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 44,593 since the pandemic began.
The number of active cases locally decreased by 42 to 704 over the past four days.
The health unit’s next scheduled COVID-19 update will be on Thursday.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) reported Monday it has 77 patients with the virus in its care. That is an increase of 16 since late last week. According to hospital officials, 22 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the other 55 are being treated for other ailments but have tested positive for COVID.
The intensive care unit has five or fewer infected patients. There are also five or fewer patients with COVID-19 at Children’s Hospital, but none are listed in paediatric critical care.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive is down by four as of Monday. There are now 76 infected staffers at the LHSC.
There are five level two COVID-19 outbreaks at the LHSC's two hospitals. Three are at University Hospital on the U4 Medicine, U9 Orthopaedics, and the U7 Clinical Neurosciences units. The other two outbreaks are at Victoria Hospital on the B7 200/PICU and B92 Orthopaedic Surgery/Trauma units.
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.
