Eighty-four new cases have been reported in London-Middlesex, local health officials said Thursday as the province unveiled plans to put all of Ontario into a month-long shutdown Saturday to curb a growing third wave of the pandemic.The health unit also reported that 49 additional local cases had screened variant positive, while another two had been confirmed through genomic sequencing to involve the B.1.1.7 variant, first detected in the U.K.Thursday’s update puts the regional pandemic case tally at 7,176, of which 6,424 have resolved, an increase of 26 from the day before.
At least 188 deaths have been reported, most recently on Wednesday involving a man in his 80s not associated with a seniors’ facility.At least 564 cases were listed as.