The province is reporting 296 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting two new cases with the same number resolved. There was one new case in Aylmer.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 30 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in Woodstock, nine in St. Thomas, three in Zorra and East Zorra-Tavistock and one each in Aylmer, Central Elgin, Southwold, Blandford-Blenheim and Tillsonburg.
A total of 786 cases have been variants of concern with two confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is just one individual in hospital at this time, not in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.0 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-seven of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those nine are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,750.
The health unit advises 129,725 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 60.9 per cent of residents.
There are 14.2 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 13.8 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 13.3 cases per 100,000 in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 56 tests on Sunday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 19 on Friday.
