The number of people with COVID-19 in London hospital has remained relatively stable over the past four days.
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) reported Monday it has 55 patients with the virus in its care. That is a decrease of one since late last week. According to hospital officials, 15 of the current inpatients are being treated for the virus, while the other 40 are being treated for other ailments but have tested positive for COVID.
The intensive care unit has five or fewer infected patients, unchanged from last Thursday. At Children’s Hospital, there are no patients with the virus, down from five or fewer.
The number of hospital workers who have tested positive dropped by 30 on Monday. There are now 62 infected staffers at the LHSC.
The level two COVID-19 outbreak on University Hospital's U4 Medicine unit has been resolved. A level two outbreak at Victoria Hospital's B7 200/PICU continues.
Another 175 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed by the Middlesex London Health Unit since it last updated its COVID-19 dashboard last Thursday. However, public health officials caution that single-day case numbers are an underestimate of community spread due to eligibility changes that limit who can receive a test. The area’s total case count stands at 43,385 since the pandemic began.
There were no additional COVID-19 deaths recorded in the city or county, leaving the local death toll unchanged at 448.
Resolved cases are up to 42,378. The number of active cases locally increased by 28 to 559 over the past four days.
The health unit’s next scheduled COVID-19 update will be on Thursday.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit that covers Elgin and Oxford counties, only updates its COVID-19 cases dashboard on Wednesdays, while the province issues its weekly updated numbers on Thursdays.