With just five new cases of COVID-19, the number of active cases in the Oxford and Elgin counties region dropped again Wednesday, Southwestern public health…
With just five new cases of COVID-19, the number of active cases in the Oxford and Elgin counties region dropped again Wednesday, Southwestern public health…
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. The Middlesex-London Health Unit is reporting 46 new COVID-19 cases and no deaths Wednesday, the fifth day in a row there have been no COVID-19-related deaths. Wednesday s count marks an increase from the 11 cases reported Tuesday, but remains in line with weekend counts, which averaged just shy of 50 cases. The last death was reported on Friday. The region now has a total of 12,076 cases and 217 deaths, with 11,420 cases resolved leaving 439 active. There are now 2,917 cases with a variant of concern – of which more than 98 percent are the B.1.1.7 variant originating from the U.K. The London Health Sciences Centre is currently handling 39 inpatients with COVID-19, of which 15 are in Intensive Care. Out-of-region transfers accounts for five patients in acute care and fewer than five in the ICU.
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The number of active COVID-19 cases dropped below 100 for the first time in nearly eight weeks on Tuesday, public health data showed.
With 32 new cases more than offset by 47 people recoveries over the long weekend, the active case count dropped to 88, the lowest total since early April.
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But even as case numbers dropped, the region recorded a new COVID-19 death – a man in his 70s from Oxford County. His death, though, was not associated with any active institutional outbreaks in the region, the health unit said.