The province is reporting 525 new COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting just eight new cases with 20 resolved since Friday. There was one new case each in St. Thomas and Bayham.
The death total is 82 since the pandemic began.
Eight hundred and seven of the confirmed cases involve variants of concern, with 25 cases still active.
There are 30 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in Woodstock, nine in St. Thomas, four in Tillsonburg, two in West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock and in one each in Bayham, SW Oxford and Norwich.
There are no active institutional cases.
Two individuals are hospitalized, none of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those nine are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,702.
The health unit announced last week more than 100,000 individuals have been vaccinated by SWPH.
There are 14.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 26.0 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 23.1 cases per 100,000 population and there are no cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 64 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 20 on Friday.
