The province is reporting 270 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 11 new cases with nine resolved since Friday. There was one new case each in St. Thomas and Central Elgin.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 30 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with nine in St. Thomas and Woodstock, four in Zorra and East Zorra-Tavistock and one each in Central Elgin, Southwold, Blandford-Blenheim and Tillsonburg.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is just one individual in hospital at this time, not in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.0 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-seven 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 3,748.
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 14.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 14.8 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 63 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 18 on Friday.
