The province this morning is reporting 9,706 new COVID-19 cases with 12 deaths.
A total of 2,467 individuals across the province are hospitalized with 438 in ICU, of those 234 are on a ventilator.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 387 new cases since Friday with 467 resolved.
Two new deaths were reported, two female Woodstock residents, one in her 60s and the other in her 70s. The death toll is now 119 since the pandemic began.
The percent positivity rate in the region has hit 24.8%, the highest since the start of the pandemic.
There are 111 new cases in St. Thomas, 31 in Aylmer, 15 in Central Elgin, 13 in West Elgin, 11 in Bayham, six in Dutton/Dunwich, two in Southwold and one in Malahide.
There are 1,459 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 428 in Woodstock, 416 in St. Thomas, 132 in Ingersoll, 86 in Tillsonburg, 77 in Aylmer, 61 in Central Elgin, 41 in East Zorra-Tavistock, 39 in Zorra, 39 in Blandford-Blenheim, 32 in West Elgin, 30 in Dutton/Dunwich, 28 in Norwich, 24 in SW Oxford and Blandford-Blenheim, 21 in Bayham, 11 in Malahide and nine in Southwold.
There are 15 resident cases and eight staff cases at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas, 14 resident and 19 staff cases at Valleyview, four resident and two staff case at Elgin Manor, six residents and seven staff at Extendicare in Port Stanley and three resident and five staff at Chartwell in Aylmer.
There are 22 hospitalizations at this time, with seven in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Nine hundred and fifty-one cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 260 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 6,966.
A total of 157,616 residents in the region have had two doses of a vaccine or 72.0 per cent.
There are 666.5 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 867.9 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 976.3 cases per 100,000 population and 107.1 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
