The province this morning is reporting 226 new COVID-19 cases with 11 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting four new cases – two of them in St. Thomas – and two resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 20 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in Woodstock, six in St. Thomas, three in Blandford-Blenheim and one in Southwold.
A total of 873 cases have been variants of concern with 56 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.
Sixteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 10 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,846.
The health unit advises 142,884 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 67.1 per cent of residents.
There are 9.5 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 15.4 cases per 100,000 population and there are no ongoing cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 57 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did five on Wednseday.
