One new COVID-19 case reported in Sarnia-Lambton

Journal Staff Lambton Public Health says one more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Sarnia-Lambton, the first new case reported in more than a week. The number of active cases now stands at three.

Journal Staff

Lambton Public Health says one more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Sarnia-Lambton, the first new case reported in more than a week.

The number of active cases now stands at three.

Tests conducted locally since the pandemic began in March exceed 23,000, with the percent positive rate holding steady at 1.5%, which is considered low.

Bluewater Health has not had a single COVID patient treated in hospital since early July.

Forty percent of the 339 confirmed cases so far have been traced to a close contact of a case, 35% to an outbreak, and 23% from an unknown source, the health unit said.

More women (57%) have been infected than men (43%).