The Middlesex London Health Unit is reporting its third COVID-19 death of the month.
Public health officials announced the death of a man in his 70s on Tuesday. The man was not associated with a long-term care or retirement home. No other details about him, including his vaccination status were released. This is the second COVID-19 death to be recorded in the area over the past four days. On Saturday, the health unit confirmed the death of a man in his 80s. The latest death increases the region’s death toll to 248.
Thirteen new infections were logged on Tuesday, up from five on Monday. The area’s total case count since the pandemic began is 14,655.
Resolved cases are up by five to 14,299. There are currently 108 active cases locally, up from 101 the previous day.
Four area schools continue to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks. Notre Dame Catholic has the highest number of infections linked to its outbreak with four. St Vincent De Paul Catholic Elementary has two cases, while École élémentaire catholique Frère-André and St. Nicholas Senior Catholic each have one case. All four schools remain open. The Thames Valley District School Board currently has 61 active cases at 30 schools, while the London District Catholic School Board has 11 cases at seven schools.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) currently has 13 inpatients with COVID-19 in its care, up one since Monday. Eight of those patients are listed in intensive care and five or fewer are in the care of Children’s Hospital. Fewer than five employees are in isolation after testing positive for the virus.
As of Saturday, there have been 803,896 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered in the region, which works out to 89.7 per cent of all area residents aged 12 and older having received at least one dose. The percentage of the local population to receive both doses is currently 86.7.
Of the 453 people who have contracted the virus locally since October 5, approximately 55.2 per cent were not vaccinated, 4.6 per cent were partially vaccinated, and 38.4 per cent were fully vaccinated. Another 1.8 per cent had the shot but it had not yet begun offering protection.
In Elgin and Oxford counties, there were 24 more infections confirmed on Tuesday. That brings Southwestern Public Health’s total number of confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic over 5,000 to 5,015. No additional COVID-19 related deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, leaving the death toll unchanged at 95. Resolved cases rose to 4,759 with 161 known active cases remaining in the area.
Ontario logged fewer than 500 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday.
Public health officials recorded 481 new infections over the past 24 hours. That is down from 552 Monday, 666 Sunday, and 661 Saturday.
The unvaccinated accounted for the bulk of new cases across the province Tuesday, with 236 of the infections reported among those who have not had a single shot. The partially vaccinated makeup 18 of the new cases, and there were 189 cases involving the fully vaccinated. Another 38 of the cases involved individuals whose vaccination status is unknown.
Ontario’s total case count since the start of the pandemic now stands at 608,206.
There was one additional death reported, bringing the provincial death toll from the virus to 9,938.
There are currently 301 people with COVID-19 being treated at Ontario hospitals, up 163 from Monday. COVID-19 related admissions to intensive care units are down by two to 139 and there are 112 people breathing with the assistance of a ventilator, a decrease of one. Of those on general hospital wards with the virus, 109 are unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated. Seventy-three are fully vaccinated.
The number of resolved cases rose by 651 to 593,454. There are currently 4,814 active cases of the virus in Ontario.
In the last 24 hour period, 18,965 COVID-19 tests were processed. The province’s positivity rate is now 2.5 per cent.
To date, the province has administered just over 22.7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with more than 11.1 million people having received both shots required to be fully inoculated.