Health officials in London and Middlesex confirmed one new local case of COVID-19 on Thursday and released new details about two of the five cases confirmed the day before, including one involving a patient in their 20s who has been hospitalized.
The new case involves a woman in her 30s who had recently travelled to the USA where she contracted the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
She is currently self-isolating. It puts the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in London and Middlesex to 20. Provincially, 858 cases have been confirmed in Ontario as of Thursday morning, including 837 active cases, 13 deaths, and 8 recoveries.