The province is reporting 1,508 new COVID-19 cases this morning with 14 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 4 new cases. Three cases were resolved. There are three new cases in Central Elgin.
The death toll remains at 67 since the pandemic began.
The seven-day rolling average remains at 10 new cases per day.
Medical officer of health Dr. Joyce Lock advises we’ve had at least 18 COVID-19 positive individuals screen positive for a variant of concern and two of those have now come back from the lab as the UK variant.
There are 73 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 33 in Woodstock, 15 in Aylmer, seven in Central Elgin, five in St. Thomas, three in East Zorra-Tavistock, Norwich and Tillsonburg, two in Ingersoll and one each in Blandford-Blenheim and SW Oxford.
One individual is hospitalized in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
One staff member has tested positive at Arches Transitional Bed Program in Woodstock.
Fifty-two of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 11 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 2,513.
There are 34.5 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 31.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 12.9 cases per 100,000 population and Aylmer has 200.2 cases per 100,000.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 215 tests on Monday.
