LONDON, ONT. We now have a weapon in the battle against COVID-19. That’s the feeling of Karen Dann, the first person in Middlesex-London to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. “I’m very excited, this is going to be a game changer for us,” she said. Dann, a registered nurse at Country Terrace Nursing Home in Komoka, received the vaccine Wednesday morning at the Western Fair Agriplex, which is serving as a field hospital and now a vaccination centre. Health-care workers and reporters were on hand for the first, which drew applause from the crowd of a couple dozen. The significance of the event was not lost on Dann.
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. The Middlesex-London Health Unit is reporting 88 new cases Wednesday, beating the record set on the weekend by one. The cases bring the total in the region to 2,696, including 2,106 resolved and 93 deaths leaving 497 active cases. No new deaths were reported Wednesday, after 11 deaths were reported over the last four days. The previous record of 87 cases in one day was reported on Saturday, amid of string days that saw high case counts and deaths. The new record comes the same day the first dose of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the region, to a worker at a local seniors’ home.