The province this morning is reporting 656 new COVID-19 cases with 13 deaths, with 504 of those new cases in individuals not fully vaccinated or vaccination status unknown.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting four new cases, with three resolved. There is one new case in St. Thomas and Central Elgin.
The death toll remains at 85 since the pandemic began.
There are 26 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with seven in St. Thomas, six in Ingersoll, four in Woodstock, three in Tillsonburg and a single case each in Aylmer, Central Elgin, Dutton-Dunwich, SW Oxford, Blandford-Blenheim and Zorra.
A total of 992 cases have been variants of concern with 168 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-four 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 3,973.
A total of 137,786 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 64.7 per cent.
There are 12.3 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 49.1 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 18.0 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 103 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 11 on Monday.
