Ontario reported 3,056 new COVID-19 cases today with 51 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 29 new cases this morning, with 54 cases resolved. It’s the second time in a week the new case count has been below 30. One new death was reported, an 88-year-old male resident at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg. The seven day rolling average of new cases in the region remains at 38 per day.
There are 359 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 100 in Tillsonburg, 68 in St. Thomas, 43 in Woodstock, 35 in Aylmer, 32 in Norwich, 15 in East Zorra-Tavistock and Ingersoll, 11 in Bayham and Zorra, nine in SW Oxford, seven in Central Elgin, six in Southwold, four in West Elgin, two in Malahide and one in Blandford-Blenheim.
Currently 12 people are hospitalized with four of those individuals in the ICU.
Eighty-one residents and 50 staff members at Maple Manor in Tillsonburg have tested positive, with 40 residents and 37 staff at People Care in Tavistock, two staff at Terrace Lodge in Malahide, two residents and two staff members at Woodingford Lodge in Woodstock, two staff members at Extendicare in Port Stanley , two residents at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas and five staff and 13 residents at Trillium Retirement Home in Norwich.
One hundred and sixty-seven of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 42 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 1,592.
There are 169.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 281.4 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 174.8 cases per 100,000 population and 467.2 per 100,000 in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 169 tests on Wednesday.
