Two new COVID-related deaths in Middlesex-London
People walk past a COVID-19 assessment centre outside a hospital in Toronto on Monday, April 4, 2022. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette)
The Middlesex-London Health Unit is reporting two new death related to COVID-19 and 89 additional lab-confirmed cases.
The deaths being reported are a man in his 70s and a woman in her 80s, both associated with a long-term care home.
London Health Sciences Centre is caring for 49 inpatients, eight of which are in the ICU.
There are eight inpatients with COVID-19 in Children’s Hospital with five or fewer in Paediatric Critical Care.
LHSC is also reporting an outbreak at Victoria Hospital Sub-Acute Medicine.
As of Thursday, there are 235 staff at LHSC who have tested positive for COVID-19 and 116 workers at St. Joseph’s Health Care who have also tested positive.
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