We’ve waited a long time to hear this, Southwestern Public Health this morning is reporting no new COVID-19 cases with four resolved.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 11 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with five in St. Thomas and one each in East Zorra-Tavistock, Norwich, Ingersoll, Woodstock, Zorra and Tillsonburg.
A total of 810 cases have been variants of concern with 14 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals in hospital at this time, one of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.0 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Nine of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those four are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,784.
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 5.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 7.7 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 71 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 10 on Monday.
