Two more people in London and Middlesex County have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Middlesex London Health Unit said Wednesday the two additional cases brings the area's total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 724. The two new infections come a day after the region saw no new cases.
Four more people previously diagnosed with COVID-19 have recovered, increasing the number of resolved cases to 637.
The death toll in London-Middlesex remains unchanged at 57. There has not been a death associated with the virus in the region since June 12.
Area institutions such as hospitals, long-term care homes, and retirement facilities have been outbreak free for nearly a month.
Ontario is reporting its first slight decrease of new infections in six days.
Public health officials said there were 88 new lab-confirmed cases across the province over the last 24 hours. It is the first time Ontario has recorded fewer than 100 new cases in a single day since last Thursday when 76 new cases were reported. At the time, Health Minister Christine Elliott noted the figure for that day was under-reported due to a glitch that made information from 11 health units unavailable. The missing data was added to the daily COVID-19 numbers the following day, bringing it to 131 new cases.
On Wednesday, 29 of the province's 34 public health units reported five or fewer cases, with 20 reporting no new cases.
Ontario's total case count is now 41,695.
There were two additional deaths since Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 2,802.
Another 115 infected Ontarians have recovered from the virus over the past 24 hours. That puts the number of resolved cases in the province at 37,863.
Hospitalizations remain low with 43 people in hospital. Of those, 15 are in the intensive care unit and 10 are using a ventilator to breathe.
The province conducted nearly 22,000 COVID-19 tests over the last recorded 24-hour period, according to public health officials.
More than 2.8 million tests for the virus have been performed in Ontario since the start of the pandemic.
Southwestern Public Health, the health unit for Elgin and Oxford counties, had not issued updated COVID-19 figures at the time of publication.
