The province is reporting 345 new COVID-19 cases and one death this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases with two resolved.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 28 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in St. Thomas, eight in Woodstock, four in Zorra, three in East Zorra-Tavistock and one each in Aylmer, Southwold and Tillsonburg.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two people in hospital at this time, none in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.2 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-two of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those seven are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,739.
The health unit advises 128,063 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 60.1 per cent of residents.
There are 13.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 21.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 25.7 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 54 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 16 on Wednesday.
