The London-area is reporting its fourth death linked to COVID-19 since the start of October.
The Middlesex London Health Unit said on Monday a 71-year-old man connected to a long-term care home has become the 61st person in the region to die from the virus. His death is the first in November related to the virus and follows three deaths last month. A 91-year-old resident of a local long-term care facility became the the first COVID-19 related death reported in the community since mid-June. His mid-October death was followed by the death of a 71-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman who had no links to long-term care or retirement homes.
The latest death increases the number of COVID-19 deaths at local long-term care homes to 26. There have been 13 deaths connected to area retirement facilities.
Outbreaks of the virus remain at four such facilities on Monday - Chartwell Royalcliffe Retirement Residence, Henley Place LTC Residence, Oakcrossing Retirement Living, and Strathmere Lodge.
Just a single new case of COVID-19 was reported in London over the last 24 hours. It comes after the region recorded 13 infections over the weekend.
Since the start of the pandemic, London and Middlesex County have now seen a total of 1,146 COVID-19 cases.
"We've also recorded another 9 recoveries which drops our known, active cases from 56 to 48. That's our lowest number since mid-September," London Mayor Ed Holder said in a tweet.
The London Health Sciences Centre said Monday the number of COVID-19 positive inpatients in its care is holding at five or fewer.
Elgin and Oxford counties saw a double-digit jump in new cases since Sunday. Southwestern Public Health, the health unit that oversees the two counties, reported 12 more people tested positive for the virus on Monday. That brings the area's total case count up to 337. There was one more recovery to put total resolved cases to 303. The death toll is unchanged at five with no new COVID-19 deaths since July 3. The region currently has 29 active cases.
Ontario's number of new infections was down slightly on Monday.
Public health officials logged 948 new cases, a decrease from 977 on Sunday and 1,015 on Saturday.
COVID-19 hotspots continue to be Toronto with 315 new infections, Peel Region with 269, York Region with 81, and Ottawa with 64.
The total number of cases in the province has risen above 77,000 to 77,655.
Seven more people died from the virus over the past 24 hours to increase the death toll to 3,152.
The number of resolved cases rose to 66,407 with 826 recoveries reported.
There are currently 328 COVID-19 infected patients in hospitals across the province. Of those, 75 are in the intensive care unit and 45 are relying on ventilators to breathe.
In the last 24 hour period, the province processed more than 27,900 additional COVID-19 tests.
