The province this morning is reporting 325 new COVID-19 cases with no new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 11 new cases since Friday and 19 resolved.
There were seven new cases in St. Thomas and one in Aylmer.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 28 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 11 in Woodstock, 10 in St. Thomas, three in Tillsonburg, two in West Elgin and one each in Aylmer and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 915 cases have been variants of concern with 97 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, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-six of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with nine of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,879.
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 13.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.4 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 13.3 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 93 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
