COVID-19: MLHU reports 5 deaths, LHSC has 28 COVID patients in ICU
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The latest COVID-19-related deaths reported by the MLHU on Tuesday involved two women in their 60s and a woman in her 90s as well as two men in their 70s and 90s.
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The Middlesex-London Health Unit reported five deaths and 90 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, compared to one death and 159 cases a week ago.
The deaths involved two women in their 60s and a woman in her 90s as well as two men in their 70s and 90s. The man in his 90s was associated with a retirement home while one of the women in her 60s was associated with a long-term care home.
Meanwhile, the London Health Sciences Centre reported 149 COVID-19 inpatients on Tuesday, which is the same number of patients reported last Tuesday.
However, the number of adults in critical care has climbed to 28 on Tuesday, up from 21 a week ago.
As noted, LHSC is caring for 149 COVID-19 inpatients, with 28 inpatients in adult critical care.
Of those, there are five or fewer in Children’s Hospital with zero in pediatric critical care, the same as last Tuesday.
Of the 149 patients, 89 are being treated for COVID-19 while 60 others in hospital have incidental COVID-19 infections (meaning they were admitted for another reason).
