The province this morning is reporting 848 new COVID-19 cases with 11 deaths. A total of 361 people across the province are hospitalized with COVID-19, of these, 30 are fully vaccinated.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting seven new cases with three resolved.
The death toll remains at 85 since the pandemic began.
There are 41 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 12 in Woodstock, nine in St. Thomas, eight in SW Oxford, five in Aylmer, three in Ingersoll, two in Blandford-Blenheim and a single case in Zorra and Tillsonburg.
A total of 1,036 cases have been variants of concern with 212 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two hospitalizations at this time, with one in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.1 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Thirty-five of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 14 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,005.
A total of 140,845 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 66.1 per cent.
There are 19.4 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 40.8 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 66.7 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 88 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 14 on Wednesday.
