The reported number of recovered COVID-19 cases across Sarnia-Lambton climbed to 73 late Friday night, up seven from Friday morning.
Lambton Public Health's latest update, which came down at 11:30 p.m., shows 165 confirmed cases, an increase of one case, and 14 deaths, which is unchanged from Monday.
Among the 73 recovered cases is 81-year-old Alex Kapteyn, one of Bluewater Health's first COVID-19 patients who spent 31 days at the Sarnia hospital. Kapteyn was sent home on Friday.
To date, the health unit has received 1,448 COVID-19 test results -- 89 per cent have been negative.
Lambton Public Health is still reporting two institutional outbreaks, one at Sarnia’s Vision Nursing Home and the other at Landmark Village.
An outbreak was declared at Vision Friday after two staff members tested positive.
There are at 39 reported cases at Landmark, including nine staff with six of the county’s 14 deaths linked to that facility.
