Coronavirus: Record 119 cases in London-Middlesex; December saw more cases than rest of pandemic sootoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sootoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. For the second day in a row, and the fourth time this month, the Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is reporting a record-setting number of new COVID-19 cases. A total of 52 new cases and one new death were reported Thursday, bringing the region’s totals to 1,979 cases, with 1,587 resolved and 77 deaths, leaving 315 active cases. The new death, a woman in her 70s, brings the total connected to the ongoing outbreak at the London Health Sciences Centre’s University Hospital to 14. The previous daily record, set on Wednesday, was 47 cases, before that the record was broken Monday when 46 cases were reported. In fact, while the region had never topped 40 cases in a day before December, Thursday is now the fifth day this month there have been more than 40 cases.