COVID-19: Middlesex-London Health Unit reports 4 cases, 1 death
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The latest COVID-19 vaccination data from the MLHU shows that among those aged 12 and older, 89.2 per cent have had at least one dose while 85.6 per cent are fully immunized.
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The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) reported just four new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, but added another virus-related death to its total.
To date, there have been 14,509 cases, including 116 active cases (a decrease of 13, 14,147 recoveries (an increase of 16) and 246 deaths.
The latest death involves a woman in her 70s, not associated with a long-term care or retirement home. Based on the MLHU’s data on deaths within the past six weeks, she was unvaccinated.
Of the 116 active cases, 41 involve kids aged 11 or under, a cohort that is not yet eligible for vaccination.
Since Sept. 19, the MLHU says all of the variant of concern cases in the region have been the Delta variant except for one case in which they were unable to generate sequencing. Total counts by the type of variant of concern can be found on the health unit’s summary of COVID-19 cases in Middlesex-London page and clicking the “Case Status” tab.
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) was caring for eight inpatients with COVID-19 as of Tuesday.
There were five or fewer inpatients in adult critical care or the intensive care unit.
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