The province this morning is reporting 525 new COVID-19 cases with five deaths, with 434 of those new cases in individuals not fully vaccinated or vaccination status unknown.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting five new cases today – two in St. Thomas – with three resolved. There was one new death, a female in her 80s, from Oxford County. It’s the first new death in more than a month.
There are now 25 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in St. Thomas, six in Ingersoll, four in Tillsonburg, two in Woodstock and a single case each in Aylmer, Dutton-Dunwich, SW Oxford, Blandford-Blenheim and Zorra.
A total of 990 cases have been variants of concern with 166 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are no hospitalizations at this time. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.4 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-two of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with seven of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,970.
A total of 136,795 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 64.2 per cent.
There are 11.8 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 49.5 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 13.3 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 93 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
