The province this morning is reporting 639 new COVID-19 cases with no new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 18 new cases with nine resolved since Friday.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 32 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 12 in St. Thomas, five each in Aylmer and Woodstock, two in Bayham, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg and a single case each in Dutton-Dunwich, Southwold, West Elgin and SW Oxford.
A total of 964 cases have been variants of concern with 141 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.
Twenty-five of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with eight of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,937.
A total of 133,228 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 62.6 per cent.
There are 15.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 29.9 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 30.8 cases per 100,000 population and 66.7 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 77 tests on Thursday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 19 on Wednesday.
