The province this morning is reporting 600 new COVID-19 cases with six deaths. A total of 189 people across the province are currently in ICU with COVID-19.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 28 new cases since Friday with 18 resolved. There are eight new cases in St. Thomas, four in Aylmer, two in Bayham and Central Elgin and one in West Elgin.
The death toll remains at 85 since the pandemic began.
There are 50 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 12 in Woodstock, 10 in St. Thomas, nine in SW Oxford, seven in Aylmer, five in Tillsonburg, two in Bayham, Blandford-Blenheim and Ingersoll a single case in West Elgin.
A total of 1,063 cases have been variants of concern with 239 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are four hospitalizations at this time, with one in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.7 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Forty of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 18 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,023.
A total of 141,515 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 66.5 per cent.
There are 23.6 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 39.4 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 25.7 cases per 100,000 population and 93.4 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 102 tests last Thursday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 14 on Wednesday.
