The province this morning is reporting 484 new COVID-19 cases since Wednesday while Southwestern Public Health is reporting six new COVID-19 cases with four resolved. There were two new cases in West Elgin and one in Aylmer.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 13 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with three in St. Thomas and Woodstock, two in West Elgin and one each in Aylmer, East Zorra-Tavistock, Ingersoll, Zorra and Tillsonburg.
A total of 811 cases have been variants of concern with 15 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, 34.0 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Ten of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, of those three are under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,788.
The health unit advises 133,551 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 62.7 per cent of residents.
There are 6.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 9.5 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 7.7 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 71 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 10 on Monday.
