For the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, the London and Middlesex region surpassed the 300 mark for new infections on Friday, setting a new pandemic case record for the third day in a row amid an ongoing surge in cases driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant.The Middlesex-London Health Unit reported that the region had recorded 335 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up from the previous record of 263 on Thursday.
That was up from 228 on Wednesday, which at the time was also a record.The update is the health unit’s last before the Christmas weekend.Friday’s case count is roughly triple that seen a week earlier.