The province is reporting 255 new COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths this morning and Health Minister Christine Elliott says more than 227-thousand doses of vaccine were administered over the past 24 hours – a record amount – for a total of more than 13 million. Southwestern Public Health is reporting four new cases with two resolved. There were two new cases in St. Thomas.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 32 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 11 in St. Thomas, 10 in Woodstock, three in Zorra and East Zorra-Tavistock and one each in Aylmer, Central Elgin, Southwold, Blandford-Blenheim and Tillsonburg.
A total of 793 cases have been variants of concern with five confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is are two individuals in hospital at this time, none in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-eight 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 3,752.
The health unit advises 130,989 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 61.5 per cent of residents.
There are 15.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.8 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 28.3 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 cases per 100,000 in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 79 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did six on Monday.
