Ontario reported 2,290 new cases of COVID-19 today, while Southwestern Public Health is advising of 30 new cases, including five in Aylmer, four in St. Thomas, and two each in Bayham and Central Elgin. Nineteen cases were resolved.
There are 160 confirmed ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area, with 27 each in St. Thomas and Aylmer, 24 in Norwich, 18 in Tillsonburg, 16 in Bayham, 12 in Woodstock, 10 in Blandford-Blenheim and Ingersoll, six in East Zorra-Tavistock, three in Central Elgin and Zorra, two in West Elgin and a single case in Southwold and SW Oxford.
Currently three people are hospitalized with two of those individuals in the ICU.
Two staff members at Bethany Care Home in Norwich and People Care in Tavistock have tested positive, a staff member has tested positive at Seasons Retirement Home in St. Thomas, Woodingford Lodge in Tillsonburg and Maple Manor in Tillsonburg which also has one resident infected
One hundred and eight of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 41 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 692.
There are 75.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 62.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 359 tests on Wednesday.
