The death toll from COVID-19 in Sarnia-Lambton has gone up again.
Lambton Public Health in its daily update Wednesday, reported the 46th related death since the end of March.
The health unit said an individual in the 70-plus age range from Lambton County died Tuesday at London Health Sciences Centre.
There were eight new confirmed cases over the past 24 hours for a total of 1,969. The number of resolved cases increased by nine to 1,840, lowering the active case count to 83 from 85 on Tuesday.
There's now eight active workplace and institutional outbreaks, down from nine. The health unit said the outbreak declared on December 30, 2020 at Village on the St. Clair Retirement Home has ended. Five residents died and a total of 28 tested positive for the virus, along with 15 staff members. An outbreak at Sarnia Jail has grown to 40 inmates and four staff.
Bluewater Health has two positive patients in hospital.
A total of 1,158 long-term care, high-risk retirement home and Indigenous Elder Care residents have been given their first doses of vaccine.
