On a day when Ontario reported a record-breaking surge of new COVID-19 cases, London and Middlesex County saw only three new infections.
The Middlesex London Health Unit said Friday one of the new cases involves a long-term care home employee. Currently, there are four ongoing outbreaks at local long-term care and retirement facilities. The outbreaks are at Ashwood Manor Retirement Home, Country Terrace, Meadow Park Care Centre, and Peoplecare Oak Crossing.
The three new cases bring the area's total number of cases up to 883. Thirty-eight of those cases were reported this week alone with 11 Sunday, eight Monday, one Tuesday, nine Wednesday, six Thursday and three Friday.
Eleven people previously diagnosed with COVID-19 has since recovered, bringing the number of resolved cases to 754.
There have been no additional deaths in London or Middlesex since June 12. The death toll is 57.
Changes to London's two assessment centres take effect on Monday. The Oakridge assessment centre will switch to appointment-only testing, while the Carling Heights assessment centre will become the city's only walk-in testing site.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit for Elgin and Oxford counties, reported no new case on Friday. The two counties have seen a combined total of 270 cases since the start of the pandemic. That includes 258 recoveries and five deaths. There are seven active cases in the region.
Provincially, there was a record-high number of new infections reported on Friday.
Public health officials said there were 732 new COVID-19 cases in Ontario, bringing the total case count to 52,980. Friday's new cases are up from 538 Thursday and break the previous record high of 700, which was set on Monday.
Nearly half of the new cases were from Toronto, which recorded 323. Ottawa reported 141, and Peel recorded 111.
Health officials also reported three additional deaths over the past 24 hours and 74 COVID link deaths from the spring and summer.
"Due to a data review at @TOPublicHealth, a number of cases and deaths that occurred in the spring or summer are being reported today," Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted.
Currently, 167 infected Ontarians are in hospital receiving treatment, with 38 in the intensive care unit.
The number of resolved cases went up by 428 to 44,850.
Over the past 24 hours, the province has conducted nearly 40,100 additional COVID-19 tests.