The province is reporting 469 new COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting just two new cases with seven resolved. There was one new death, an Oxford County woman in her 70s.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There were no new cases in St. Thomas or Elgin county.
Eight hundred and seven of the confirmed cases involve variants of concern, with 25 cases still active.
There are 24 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in Woodstock, four in St. Thomas, three in Tillsonburg, two in West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock and in one each in Bayham, SW Oxford and Norwich.
There are no active institutional cases.
Two individuals are hospitalized, none of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.4 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Fourteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those seven are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,709.
The health unit announced last week more than 100,000 individuals have been vaccinated by SWPH.
There are 11.3 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 21.3 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 10.3 cases per 100,000 population and there are no cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 41 tests on Sunday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 20 on Friday.
