The province this morning is reporting 510 new COVID-19 cases with four new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting six new cases with five resolved. There were two new cases in St. Thomas and one each in Aylmer and Dutton-Dunwich.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 26 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with nine in Woodstock, seven in St. Thomas, four in Aylmer, two in Central Elgin and one each in Dutton-Dunwich, West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 924 cases have been variants of concern with 106 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 three of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,902.
Fifty-nine point eight per cent of the population in the region is fully immunized.
There are 12.8 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 15.4 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 53.4 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 99 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 16 on Wednesday.
