The number of COVID-19-related fatalities in Lanark, Leeds, and Grenville increased by two in the last two days in the health unit’s report issued Wednesday.
The death toll now sits at 93 since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.
While the number of virus-related hospitalizations province-wide has increased in the past week, local numbers have gone down.
There are now just five in local hospitals. But the health unit says that’s because they have altered the way those statistics are gathered. It used to be that someone in hospital who tested positive for the virus was counted for the duration of their hospital stay, even if they were there for another health concern. Now, the case is removed from the tally after they no longer test positive.
Four of the five hospitalized are in ICUs and two are being ventilated, an increase of one from Monday’s report.
There have also been 84 high-risk cases added since the last report was issued on Monday.
As for outbreaks, the number is five, unchanged from the last report.
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