Southwestern Public Health is reporting 27 new cases this morning with 24 cases resolved. There are nine new cases in St. Thomas with one each in Aylmer and Central Elgin. There have been 12 COVID-19 related deaths since the pandemic began.
There are 264 confirmed ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area, with 58 in Tillsonburg, 52 each in Aylmer and St. Thomas, 23 in East Zorra-Tavistock, 22 in Woodstock, 12 in Bayham, 11 in Norwich, nine in Blandford-Blenheim, eight in Central Elgin, five in Southwold and Ingersoll, four in Zorra, two in SW Oxford and one in West Elgin.
Currently eight people are hospitalized with two of those individuals in the ICU.
Twenty-five residents and 16 staff members at Maple Manor in Tillsonburg have tested positive, with 20 residents and 13 staff at People Care in Tavistock, two staff at Chartwell in Aylmer and Seasons Retirement Home in St. Thomas, five staff at Terrace Lodge in Malahide and a resident at Elgin Manor in Southwold.
One hundred and forty-nine of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 40 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 883.
There are 124.8 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 98.9 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 462.6 cases per 100,000 population and 3,123.3 per 100,000 in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 417 tests on Wednesday.
