The province this morning is reporting 9,571 new COVID-19 cases, with six new deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 110 new cases, with 25 resolved.
There was one death, an Elgin woman in her 70s.
The death toll is 111 since the pandemic began.
There are 28 new cases in St. Thomas, nine in Aylmer, eight in Central Elgin, three in Dutton/Dunwich and Southwold, two in Malahide and one in West Elgin.
There are 479 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 129 in St. Thomas, 114 in Woodstock, 38 in Ingersoll, 29 in Tillsonburg and Zorra, 27 in Central Elgin, 22 in Aylmer, 15 in Dutton/Dunwich, 13 in Blandford-Blenheim, 12 in East Zorra-Tavistock and Norwich, 11 in Malahide, 10 in SW Oxford, seven in West Elgin, six in Southwold and five in Bayham.
On Christmas Eve last year, there were 197 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area.
There are 11 resident cases and nine staff cases and two deaths at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas.
There are 13 hospitalizations at this time, with five in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Three hundred and seventy-eight of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 142 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 5,631.
A total of 156,928 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.7 per cent.
There are 226.5 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 259.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 331.5 cases per 100,000 population and 293.6 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
