The province this morning is reporting 650 new COVID-19 cases with two new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases with three resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 23 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in St. Thomas, three in Aylmer and Woodstock, two in Dutton-Dunwich and Tillsonburg and one each in Bayham, West Elgin, Zorra, Ingersoll and SW Oxford.
A total of 951 cases have been variants of concern with 127 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals hospitalized at this time, neither in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.1 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Fourteen 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 3,928.
A total of 130,482 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 61.3 per cent.
There are 10.9 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 26.2 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 40.0 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 106 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 19 on Wednesday.
