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London and Middlesex County reported on Sunday one of its largest single-day spikes in new COVID-19 cases, with 20 – the second time this week to reach daily jumps not seen since the pandemic’s springtime peak.
It follows 53 cases over the last five days – including four straight days of double-digit increases before a small bump on Saturday – and comes as public health officials and politicians plead for small, in-house Thanksgiving dinners but no large family gatherings.
Sunday’s count is close the the single-day record for new London-area cases, 24, set on April 16.
“Please stay home this Thanksgiving weekend. Please do not travel out of town. Please only celebrate with members of your own household. The stakes are incredibly high, and we absolutely cannot afford to get this wrong,” Mayor Ed Holder said on social media.
“Numbers are steadily rising here in London, while case counts across Ontario are setting new records. This is serious, and, as always it’s not enough if ‘some of us’ do the right thing, or ‘most of us,’ this requires all of us.”
