The province is reporting 296 new COVID-19 cases and six deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting two new cases with five resolved. There were no new cases in St. Thomas or Elgin county.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 29 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 10 in St. Thomas and Woodstock, four in East Zorra-Tavistock, two in Tillsonburg and one each in Aylmer, Central Elgin and Southwold.
A total of 794 cases have been variants of concern with five confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals in hospital at this time, none in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 33.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-four 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 3,757.
The health unit advises 130,989 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 61.5 per cent of residents.
There are 13.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.4 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 25.7 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 cases per 100,000 in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 64 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did six on Monday.
