The province this morning is reporting 678 new COVID-19 cases with no deaths, with 537 of those new cases in individuals not fully vaccinated or vaccination status unknown.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting three new cases, none of them in St. Thomas or Elgin, with seven 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 nine in St. Thomas, four in Woodstock, three in Ingersoll, two in Aylmer and a single case each in Bayham, Southwold, Tillsonburg, Zorra and SW Oxford.
A total of 973 cases have been variants of concern with 149 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are three individuals hospitalized at this time, one in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.4 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Eighteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with six of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,953.
A total of 134,394 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 63.1 per cent.
There are 10.9 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 45.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 23.1 cases per 100,000 population and 26.7 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 139 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 25 on Monday.
