The province this morning is reporting 513 new COVID-19 cases with no new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting five new cases with 11 resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 26 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 11 in Woodstock, seven in St. Thomas, three in Aylmer, two in Central Elgin and one each in West Elgin, Tillsonburg and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 923 cases have been variants of concern with 105 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 of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with four of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,897.
Fifty-eight point three per cent of the population in the region is fully immunized.
There are 12.3 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 13.8 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 18.0 cases per 100,000 population and 40.0 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 98 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Monday.
