COVID-19: MLHU reports 27 cases; SWPH reports 29 cases, 1 death
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SWPH reported the death of a woman in her 50s from Elgin County on Thursday. It's the second COVID-19-related death this week.
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The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported 27 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, though the total case count climbed by 29 to 14,934, the discrepancy likely due to data cleanup.
There are currently 168 active cases (an increase of 10), 14,514 recoveries (an increase of 19) and 252 deaths (unchanged).
The most recent deaths were reported Nov. 22 and involved an unvaccinated man in his 60s and a fully vaccinated woman in her 80s.
The rate of active cases among those aged 18 to 24 is now the highest, with 25 cases working out to 47.4 cases per 100,000 population. The rate of cases among those under age 11 is 43.5 per 100,000, or 28 cases. Children aged five to 11 have only been eligible for vaccination since Nov. 26 while those kids under four are ineligible.
Information on local variant of concern data can be found by visiting the health unit’s summary of COVID-19 cases in Middlesex-London page and clicking on the “Case Status” tab.
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is caring for 18 inpatients with COVID-19, with eight in adult critical care or the intensive care unit, as of Thursday.
On Nov. 29, LHSC chief medical officer Dr. Adam Dukelow reiterated that, over the previous four weeks, roughly two-thirds of LHSC’s COVID-19 admissions came from outside of London-Middlesex.