COVID-19-related death on Friday, lifting the death toll across the region since the pandemic began to 400.“Today we are reporting one death in our community related to COVID-19,” Dr.
Hsiu-Li Wang, medical officer of health, stated. COVID-19: No end in sight for Waterloo Region’s state of emergency “The individual was a female in her 50s.
I wish to express my deep sympathy to the family of this individual.”The agency also reported that there are still 24 people in the three area hospitals as a result of COVID-19 including 10 patients in need of intensive care.
Both numbers have fallen by one since Thursday’s report.The hospitals still also have three of the area’s eight active COVID-19 outbreaks in areas of concern with three others being in congregate settings and the remaining two being in long-term-care or retirement homes.The eight outbreaks are in stark contrast to a month earlier when there were 59 outbreaks active in areas of concern across Waterloo Region.The agency reported another 54 positive tests for the coronavirus on Friday, lifting the total number of cases in the area to 40,722.This puts the rolling seven-day average number of new daily cases back to 46.7.