The province is reporting 916 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 26 new cases with 36 resolved since Friday. There were nine new cases in St. Thomas.
The death total is 80 since the pandemic began.
Seven hundred and eighty-eight of the confirmed cases involve variants of concern, with 47 cases still active.
There are 52 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 13 in Tillsonburg, 12 in St. Thomas, nine in Woodstock, six in Zorra, two in Aylmer, Bayham, Blandford-Blenheim and Norwich and one each in West Elgin, East Zorra-Tavistock, SW Oxford and Ingersoll.
There are no active institutional cases.
Four individuals are hospitalized, one of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.0 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Thirty-six 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 3,659.
The health unit announced today more than 100,000 individuals have been vaccinated by SWPH.
There are 24.6 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 60.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 30.8 cases per 100,000 population and Aylmer has 26.7 cases per 100,000.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 68 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 16 Friday.
