The province is reporting 299 new COVID-19 cases and 25 deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting one new case, five cases In St. Thomas and Central Elgin were transferred to other health units and five were resolved.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 15 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with five in St. Thomas and Woodstock, two in East Zorra-Tavistock and one in Norwich, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.
A total of 810 cases have been variants of concern with 13 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are three individuals in hospital at this time, one of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Thirteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those three are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,780.
The health unit advises 132,480 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 62.2 per cent of residents.
There are 7.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 6.9 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 there are no cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 35 tests on Sunday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
