The province this morning is reporting 164 new COVID-19 cases while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases with two resolved.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 17 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with five in St. Thomas, four in Woodstock, two in West Elgin and Tillsonburg and one each in Aylmer, Bayham, East Zorra-Tavistock, and Ingersoll.
A total of 813 cases have been variants of concern with 15 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are four individuals in hospital at this time, two of whom are in the ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Ten of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those one is under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,791.
The health unit advises 134,534 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 63.2 per cent of residents.
There are 8.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.6 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 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 45 tests on Friday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 18 on Friday.
