The province this morning is reporting 340 new COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting five new cases and five resolved. There were three new cases in St. Thomas.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 36 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 17 in Woodstock, eight in St. Thomas, five in West Elgin, four in Blandford-Blenheim and two in Tillsonburg.
A total of 906 cases have been variants of concern with 89 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 18 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,860.
The health unit advises 144,738 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 68.0 per cent of residents.
There are 17.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 10.2 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 120 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 20 on Wednesday.
