The province this morning is reporting 114 new COVID-19 cases with no deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting nine new cases over the weekend with 13 resolved.
The death total is 83 since the pandemic began.
There are 13 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with six in Bayham, two in St. Thomas and Woodstock, and one each in Aylmer, West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 820 cases have been variants of concern with 17 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is one individual in hospital at this time, who is in the ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.6 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Nine of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, none of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,811.
The health unit advises 136,763 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 64.2 per cent of residents.
There are 6.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.2 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 5.1 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 68 tests on Friday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 10 on Friday.
