The province is reporting 1,039 COVID-19 new cases and 33 deaths this morning and 1,449 cases and 8 deaths Monday while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 32 new cases with 47 resolved since Friday.
There was one new death, an Oxford man in his 70s not associated with an institutional outbreak. The death now brings the total to 80 since the pandemic began.
There were five new cases in St. Thomas, three in Aylmer and West Elgin, two in Central Elgin and one in Bayham.
Seven hundred and forty-six of the confirmed cases involve variants of concern, with 66 cases still active.
There are 88 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 31 in Woodstock, 11 in St. Thomas, 10 in Tillsonburg, eight in Zorra and Norwich, six in Aylmer, four in West Elgin and Blandford-Blenheim, two in Bayham and Central Elgin and one in SW Oxford and Ingersoll.
Fourteen patients and five staff at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital have tested positive.
Four individuals are hospitalized, two of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.9 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Sixty of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 18 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,578.
Through May 15 – the latest data available from the health unit – 75,780 individuals have been vaccinated by SWPH, with 73,226 of those having received their first dose.
There are 41.6 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 109.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 28.3 cases per 100,000 population and Aylmer has 80.1 cases per 100,000.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 60 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 16 on Friday.
