A microbiologist performs a manual extraction of the coronavirus. (Photo by Tom Wolf from Flickr)A microbiologist performs a manual extraction of the coronavirus. (Photo by Tom Wolf from Flickr)
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London region's COVID-19 case-counter won't be updated Monday

Middlesex-London's COVID-19 reporting dashboard won't be updated Monday due to an outage of the provincial reporting system.

The Middlesex London Health Unit made the switch last week from an internal case and contact management tool to Ontario's Salesforce platform, in order to sync its data with the province’s. The health unit said Monday because of a scheduled province-wide service outage of the provincial system, staff will not be able to enter or extract local case data, leaving the local COVID-19 dashboard displaying Sunday's figures.

Daily updating of the region's new cases, recoveries, and deaths will resume on Tuesday, the health unit reassured.

Southwestern Public Health, the health unit for Elgin and Oxford counties, reported just ten new COVID-19 infections on Monday. That bring the area’s total caseload to 2,305. The death toll is uncharged at 57, with zero additional deaths reported since Saturday. Recoveries rose to 2,082. Three more residents and three more staff members at Caressant Care Retirement Home Woodstock have contracted the virus since Friday. There are now 38 residents and nine employees infected at the home.

In Elgin and Oxford, there are currently 166 known active cases of the novel coronavirus.

Ontario’s daily COVID-19 caseload is once again inching toward the 2,000 mark.

Public health officials reported 1,969 new infections Monday, up from 1,848 the previous day but down from 2,063 on Saturday.

The most new cases of any Ontario city came from Toronto with 886. The city was followed by Peel with 330 and York Region with 128.

However, Health Minister Christine Elliott noted Monday's numbers have been inflated by data catch-up by Toronto Public Health.

"As Toronto Public Health migrates to the provincial data system, CCM, additional records were reported for Toronto Public Health today, resulting in an overestimate of the daily counts," tweeted Elliott.

She did not specify how many of the cases reported Monday were the result of the data catch-up.

Ontario’s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic now stands at 270,180.

There were 36 additional deaths related to the virus across the province, increasing the death toll to 6,224. Of the latest deaths, 19 were residents of long-term care homes.

Public health officials said the number of resolved case across the province now totals 244,939. Currently, there are 2,132 known active cases of COVID-19 in Ontario.

The number of infected requiring hospital care in Ontario stands at 1,158. Of those in hospital, 354 are in the intensive care unit and 260 are on ventilators.

In the last 24 hour period, 30,359 COVID-19 tests were processed. Ontario’s positivity rate is now roughly 5.2 per cent.

Public health officials said as of 8 p.m. Sunday, 341,900 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the province. A total of 70,293 Ontarians have received their second dose of the vaccine to be considered fully inoculated against the virus.

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