The province this morning is reporting 185 new COVID-19 cases with seven deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting no new cases with three resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 17 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with nine in Woodstock, four in St. Thomas, two in Aylmer and one each in Zorra and Norwich Township.
A total of 863 cases have been variants of concern with 50 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is one hospitalization with the individual not in the ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Thirteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with four of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,831.
The health unit advises 139,951 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 65.7 per cent of residents.
There are 8.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.0 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 26.7 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 54 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 14 on Monday.
