3 people in London region died over the weekend from COVID-19, 21 in local intensive care unit
CBC
Three people died over the weekend in the London and Middlesex County region after contracting COVID-19 and there are currently 21 people in the intensive care unit of the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) dealing with the illness.
The people who died were:
The Middlesex London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting 818 cases of the virus on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, though the actual case count is much higher because the health unit is no longer testing most people who suspect they have the COVID-19 virus.
The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 currently stands at 147, with 21 people in the intensive care unit, the same number as the LHSC reported on Friday. Of those 147:
At the London hospital, 390 staffers have tested positive for COVID-19, a significant drop from Friday, when 511 staffers were off because they had tested positive.
Ontario reported 3,887 hospitalizations of people with COVID-19 on Monday, with 578 of those patients in ICU.
However, not all hospitals in the province report hospitalization figures on weekends, so the real number could be higher.
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