The province this morning is reporting 495 new COVID-19 cases, with eight deaths. There are 172 people in intensive care, including 123 on ventilators.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting nine new cases, with five resolved. There are five new cases in Aylmer and one in St. Thomas.
The death toll remains at 86 since the pandemic began.
There are 32 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in Woodstock, six in Aylmer, three in Ingersoll, two in St. Thomas, Bayham, Southwold, Dutton-Dunwich, Blandford-Blenheim and East Zorra-Tavistock and single cases in Central Elgin, West Elgin and Tillsonburg.
A total of 1,165 cases have been variants of concern with 340 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are four hospitalizations at this time, with two in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 36.4 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-four of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with five of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,156.
A total of 146,554 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 68.8 per cent.
There are 15.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 31.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 5.1 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 180 tests Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 49 on Friday.
