While Elgin and Oxford counties deal with another half a dozen new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, London and Middlesex County recorded only one new infection.
The Middlesex London Health Unit said for the second day in a row only one additional person has tested positive for the virus. The latest case brings the area's total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 681.
Seven more people previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered, raising the region's resolved cases to 599. The death toll is unchanged at 57. There has not been a death related to the virus in London-Middlesex since June 12.
The region's lone outbreak at the London Health Sciences Centre’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit has now been declared over, the health unit said on Thursday.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit for Elgin and Oxford counties, reported another spike of COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours. Six more people tested positive for the virus on Thursday. That is up from only two on Wednesday. Since Saturday, the two counties have seen the number of cases jump by 43. That region's total case count is now 186.
The number of resolved cases went up by three to 99 over a 24 hour period. No additional deaths have been recorded since July 3.
Provincially, the number of new COVID-19 cases is under 100 for the fourth consecutive day.
Public health officials reported 95 new lab-confirmed cases over the last 24 hours. Twenty-nine of Ontario’s 34 public health units recorded five or fewer cases, with 15 of them reporting no new cases on Thursday.
Ontario's total number of cases since the start of the pandemic stands at 39,809, with 35,906 cases resolved.
"With 159 more resolved [Thursday], we continue to see a persistent decline in the number of active cases," noted Health Minister Christine Elliott in a tweet.
One additional COVID-19 related death was reported Thursday, bringing the death toll in Ontario to 2,783.
Over the past 24 hours, the province has processed an additional 26,181 COVID-19 tests.
