The province this morning is reporting 119 new COVID-19 cases with three deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases since Friday with six resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 14 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with nine in Woodstock, four in St. Thomas one in Zorra.
A total of 864 cases have been variants of concern with 51 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.
Twelve of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with six of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,837.
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 6.6 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 10.6 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 there are no ongoing cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 58 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 11 on Friday.

