Three more people in the London-area have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Middlesex London Health Unit reported the new cases of the virus on Friday. Two of the new cases involve men in their 20s. The third was a woman in her 30s. One of the men had recently travelled. How the other two patients contracted the virus is listed as pending.
With the cases announced on Friday, the London-area has now seen a total of 23 confirmed cases since the outbreak began. Of those, only the very first case to be confirmed has been resolved.
Southwestern Public Health, which includes Oxford, Elgin, Woodstock, and St. Thomas, recorded one new confirmed case of the virus - an Elgin County man in his 70s. The man is being treated in hospital. He is the fifth case to be confirmed by the public health unit in that area.
Elsewhere in southwestern Ontario, two Chatham-Kent men in their 40s tested positive for the virus, Windsor-Essex reported three new confirmed cases, two elderly patients in the Lambton-area have been hospitalized due to COVID-19, and the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit reported its first confirmed case.
Provincially, 135 new cases and three COVID-19-related deaths were confirmed by public health officials. The province listed all other details about the new cases as "pending." More than 41,000 people across the province have been tested for COVID19, of which 967 have tested positive. Another 10,074 cases remain under investigation.