The province this morning is reporting 164 new COVID-19 cases while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 13 new cases since Friday with two resolved. There are three new cases in St. Thomas and two in West Elgin.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 31 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 14 in Woodstock, eight in St. Thomas, six in Blandford-Blenheim, two in West Elgin and one in Southwold.
A total of 884 cases have been variants of concern with 67 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are no hospitalizations at this time. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-five of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 14 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,848.
The health unit advises 143,427 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 67.4 per cent of residents.
There are 14.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 10.8 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 20.6 cases per 100,000 population and there are no ongoing cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 73 tests on Thursday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 11 on Thursday.
