The province this morning is reporting 143 new COVID-19 cases with 10 deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting two new cases with five resolved. Once again, there were no new cases in St. Thomas or Elgin county.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 12 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with three in Bayham and East Zorra-Tavistock, two in Woodstock and one each in Aylmer, West Elgin, Blandford-Blenheim and Zorra.
A total of 827 cases have been variants of concern with 24 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are no hospitalizations at this time. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.6 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Eleven of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, none of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,817.
The health unit advises 137,749 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 64.7 per cent of residents.
There are 5.7 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 11.6 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. There are no cases in St. Thomas and 13.3 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 69 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did eight on Monday.
