The province is reporting 914 new COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is again reporting four new cases with five resolved. There was one new case in West Elgin.
The death total is 82 since the pandemic began.
Eight hundred and one of the confirmed cases involve variants of concern, with 35 cases still active.
There are 42 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 11 in Tillsonburg, nine in St. Thomas and Woodstock, four in Norwich, three in Zorra, two in West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock and in one each in SW Oxford and Blandford-Blenheim.
There are no active institutional cases.
Two individuals are hospitalized, neither in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Thirty-one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those 14 are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,682.
The health unit announced Monday more than 100,000 individuals have been vaccinated by SWPH.
There are 19.9 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 38.2 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 23.1 cases per 100,000 population and there are no cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 120 tests on Wednesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 Wednesday.
