The province this morning is reporting 5,790 new COVID-19 cases, with seven new deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 89 new cases, with 18 resolved.
The death toll is 110 since the pandemic began.
There are 34 new cases in St. Thomas, four in West Elgin and Dutton/Dunwich, two in Malahide and Southwold and a single case in Aylmer.
There are 397 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 112 in St. Thomas, 91 in Woodstock, 31 in Ingersoll, 23 in Zorra, 22 in Central Elgin and Tillsonburg, 15 in Aylmer, 14 in Norwich, 13 in Dutton/Dunwich, 11 in Blandford-Blenheim, 10 in East Zorra-Tavistock, nine in Malahide and SW Oxford, eight in West Elgin, four in Bayham and three in Southwold.
There are 11 resident cases and nine staff cases and two deaths at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas.
There are 12 hospitalizations at this time, with four in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Three hundred and six of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 120 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 5,606.
A total of 156,700 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.6 per cent.
There are 187.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 225.2 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 287.9 cases per 100,000 population and 200.2 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
