The province this morning is reporting 531 new COVID-19 cases with 17 new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 2 new cases with 3 resolved. Both of the new cases did come out of St. Thomas
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 23 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in St. Thomas, 3 each in Woodstock and Aylmer, 2 in Dutton-Dunwich and a single case each in Central Elgin, West Elgin, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.
A total of 950 cases have been variants of concern with 126 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, 34.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Sixteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with two of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,925.
