Feeling unwell? COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the London area
CBC
The Middlesex London Health Unit is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases, with more people winding up in hospital and an increase in outbreaks at long term care homes.
Viral infection data released Tuesday shows a steady increase of cases, with eight new outbreaks declared in institutions and an average of 31 people hospitalized this past week. The health unit says four people have died since the end of August.
The percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 is considered very high and outbreaks at health-care facilities are considered high, health officials said. A quarter of people being tested are testing positive, they said.
The virus also made a return at this time last year, peaking in the colder winter weather before slowly tapering off in the spring. Ontario is currently waiting, as are other provinces, for Health Canada to release the latest vaccination. It instructed all health units across the province to withdraw and destroy its remaining supply of XBB vaccines on Sept. 1.
Health Canada said the expectation is the new vaccine targeting the latest strains of Omicron circulating in the country will be available in early Oct.
Earlier this year, the Ontario government withdrew funding for wastewater monitoring stations from 60 locations, including two in London, and four just outside the city.
As of June, the federal program has just four such location sites, all in Toronto. The Public Health Agency of Canada had said at the time it would be expanding to four additional cities.
The health unit said the number of tests it is doing is limited, compared to the height of the pandemic. It's currently only swabbing people who are already in hospital or in a care home, and only those who are symptomatic.
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