COVID-19: Middlesex-London reports 14 cases, 2 deaths on Monday

The MLHU reported 14 cases and two deaths Monday. SWPH reported 71 cases from Saturday to Monday as well as the death of a man in his 80s from Elgin County,

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The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported 14 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, as well as the death of a man in his 60s and a woman in her 80s.

The health unit also reported the death of a man in his 90s on Saturday. None of the three deaths were associated with a long-term care or retirement home.

“Of the three individuals that have died in the last few days, two individuals were fully vaccinated. Those individuals were in their 80s and 90s,” acting medical officer of health Dr. Alex Summers said Monday.

“The other individual was not vaccinated. They were in their 60s. And again, we grieve with our community with the tragic passing of those individuals.”

Summers added that the two who were fully vaccinated had received a booster dose but did not yet have protection from the booster dose when they were exposed to COVID-19.

“There’s a two-week window after you receive a vaccine where we would not consider you to have received any protection from that vaccine because your immune system is still ramping up. And unfortunately, that was the situation here.”

Summers stressed that while the vaccine is “not perfect” it’s “darn close.”