The active COVID-19 caseload has nearly doubled in the last week to 32 cases, up from 18 last Friday.
In its daily update Lambton Public Health reported five more confirmed cases for a total of 445 and 387 recoveries, up one.
The virus-related death of a man in his 70s, the 26th since the pandemic began, was reported on Thursday.
Bluewater Health reported Friday it now has two COVID-positive patients in hospital. Communications Chief Julia Oosterman said they have two new cases in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). One person is from Sarnia-Lambton and the other from outside the community.
As of Saturday, December 5, Lambton Public Health had received results from 61,004 tests with less than one per cent positive.
Two student cases previously linked to Northern High School and one at St. Patrick's High School have been removed from the public and Catholic school board website COVID-19 advisory pages, and are presumed to be resolved.
Sarnia-Lambton remained at the Yellow-Protect level of the province's COVID response framework Friday. The province announced that neighbouring London-Middlesex is being elevated to the Red-Control level effective Monday and Windsor-Essex will be in Grey-Lockdown.
