COVID cases climb among LHSC staff

Registered nurse Stephanie Flores, who has been redeployed from the operating room to the intensive care unit, looks out the window in the ICU at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)

The number of staff who have tested positive for COVID-19 at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) continues to climb.

As of Monday, there are 232 staff who have reported testing positive, an increase of 53 since Friday.

Meanwhile a drop in those numbers are St. Joseph’s Health Care where 47 health care workers are currently positive, down from 59 on Friday. Care who have tested positive.

The number of people being treated in hospital with COVID-19 remains steady, with LHSC caring for 44 people, five or fewer are in the ICU.

There are five or fewer inpatients with COVID-19 in Children’s Hospital with zero inpatients in the Paediatric Critical Care unit.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting a combined 164 lab-reported cases of the virus since Friday. Of the new cases. 57 are from Saturday, 57 are form Sunday and 50 are from Monday.

There are currently eight outbreaks reported among long-term care, retirement homes and hospitals in the MLHU coverage area.

REGIONAL COVID-19 COUNTS

Here are the most recently available lab-confirmed COVID-19 case counts from local public health authorities, though officials say testing eligibility rules make these an underestimate of actual cases:

• Elgin-Oxford – 71 new, 239 active, 11,212 total, 10,824 resolved, 149 deaths
• Grey-Bruce – 13 new cases as of Friday, 5 confirmed cases in hospital, 43 deaths
• Huron-Perth – 29 new, 5,646 total, 93 deaths
• Sarnia-Lambton – 9,785 total, 127 deaths