A 93-year-old man is Newmarket's 35th COVID-19 related death and among the growing death toll linked to outbreaks at Southlake Regional Health Centre.
The man, who passed away Jan. 25, is the ninth patient to die after being exposed to COVID-19 at one of six outbreaks at the Newmarket hospital during the pandemic.
He was asymptomatic, however, a test confirmed the virus Jan. 13, according to York Region spokesperson Patrick Casey.
York Region Public Health reported another eight COVID-19 deaths on Jan. 29, now totalling 458, and including an 87-year-old Aurora woman who also passed away Jan. 25 at Southlake after being exposed to the virus at the hospital.
She, too, had been asymptomatic, however, a test confirmed the virus Jan. 21, Casey said.
Also this week, on Jan. 28, the public health unit reported the death of an 87-year-old Georgina woman who passed away Friday, Jan. 15 with COVID-19 acquired at Southlake.
The positive case was confirmed Dec. 21, the day following symptom onset, and the first day that the hospital's second outbreak of the pandemic was declared.
