The number of deaths related to COVID-19 in the London-area now sits at 141 after two new fatalities were reported on Saturday.
Updated figures released by the Middlesex London Health Unit show that the latest deaths were a man in his 70s who was a resident of a long-term care home and a man in his 80s from the general community.
There were also 117 new COVID-19 cases reported in the London-area on Saturday. The total number of cases is now at 4,989.
Meanwhile, 60 new cases were listed as being resolved on Saturday, with the number of recoveries in the region now at 3,365.
There are now 17 institutional outbreaks in the region. The latest outbreak was declared on Friday in the Emergency Department at University Hospital.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit covering St. Thomas, Woodstock and Elgin and Oxford counties, reported 29 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, the region has recorded a total of 1,991 cases.
Province-wide, the case count reached 234,364 on Saturday with public health officials in Ontario confirming 3,056 new cases.
According to Health Minister Christine Elliot, 189,090 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario as of Friday evening.
