The province this morning is reporting 348 new COVID-19 cases with 10 new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases with four resolved. There were no new cases in St. Thomas or Elgin county.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 27 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in St. Thomas, six in Aylmer and Woodstock, two in Dutton-Dunwich and one each in Central Elgin, West Elgin, Zorra, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.
A total of 940 cases have been variants of concern with 118 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is one individual hospitalized at this time, not in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Nineteen 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 3,917.
A total of 128,820 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 60.5 per cent.
There are 12.8 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 22.7 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 80.1 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 78 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 18 on Friday.
