The province this morning is reporting 577 new COVID-19 cases with seven deaths. There are 192 COVID-19 patients in intensive care at Ontario hospitals. Nine of those individuals are fully vaccinated.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting six new cases with six resolved. There are two new cases 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 15 in Woodstock, nine in St. Thomas, seven in SW Oxford, six in Aylmer, five in Tillsonburg, three in West Elgin, two in Bayham and Ingersoll a single case in Blandford-Blenheim.
A total of 1,068 cases have been variants of concern with 244 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-one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 17 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,029.
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 38.0 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 80.1 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 112 tests last Friday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
