The province this morning is reporting 11,352 new COVID-19 cases.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 169 new cases with 75 resolved.
There was one death, an Elgin man in his 70s.
The death toll is 114 since the pandemic began.
There are 50 new cases in St. Thomas, 10 in Central Elgin, six in West Elgin, four in Aylmer and Southwold, three in Malahide and two in Dutton/Dunwich.
There are 1,379 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 408 in Woodstock, 385 in St. Thomas, 107 in Ingersoll, 75 in Central Elgin, 73 in Tillsonburg, 52 in Aylmer, 48 in Zorra and East Zorra-Tavistock, 43 in Blandford-Blenheim, 34 in Dutton/Dunwich, 30 in Norwich, 24 in West Elgin, 20 in SW Oxford, 15 in Bayham, 10 in Malahide and seven in Southwold.
There is one resident case and four staff cases at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas, nine resident and six staff cases at Valleyview, four resident and one staff case at Elgin Manor, one resident and two staff at Extendicare in Port Stanley and three staff at Chartwell in Aylmer.
There are 15 hospitalizations at this time, with five in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.7 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
One thousand of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 305 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 6,232.
A total of 157,128 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.8 per cent.
There are 652.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 804.3 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 989.5 cases per 100,000 population and 694.1 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
