The province this morning is reporting 139 new COVID-19 cases with 11 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting nine new cases with just two resolved. There are three new cases in West Elgin and two in St. Thomas.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 38 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 15 in Woodstock, 10 in St. Thomas, six in Blandford-Blenheim, five in West Elgin and one each in Southwold and Tillsonburg.
A total of 883 cases have been variants of concern with 66 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.
Thirty-one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 16 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,850.
The health unit advises 143,799 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 67.5 per cent of residents.
There are 18.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 12.4 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 25.7 cases per 100,000 population and there are no ongoing cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 109 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 11 on Friday.
