The province this morning is reporting 183 new COVID-19 cases with nine deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases with two resolved. There was one new case in Aylmer and West Elgin.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 17 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with six in Woodstock, four in St. Thomas, two in West Elgin and one each in Aylmer, Bayham, East Zorra-Tavistock, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.
A total of 819 cases have been variants of concern with 17 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals in hospital at this time, one of whom is in the ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.6 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Eight of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, none of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,798.
The health unit advises 135,283 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 63.5 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 10.3 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 62 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did nine on Wednesday.
