The province is reporting 210 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths this morning while Southwestern Public Health is reporting 11 new cases since Friday with 12 resolved. There are six new case in St. Thomas and two in Central Elgin.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 24 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in St. Thomas and Woodstock, three in Central Elgin, two in East Zorra-Tavistock and Tillsonburg and one in Norwich.
A total of 807 cases have been variants of concern with 12 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals in hospital at this time, one of those in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Nineteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those six are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,775.
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 11.3 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 7.3 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 20.6 cases per 100,000 population and there are no cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 39 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
