The province this morning is reporting 127 new COVID-19 cases with two deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting a single new case with four resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 17 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with seven in Woodstock, three in St. Thomas, two in Aylmer and Zorra and one each in Blandford-Blenheim, Tillsonburg and Norwich Township.
A total of 861 cases have been variants of concern with 47 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is one hospitalization with the individual not in the ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twelve of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with four of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,828.
The health unit advises 139,249 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 65.4 per cent of residents.
There are 8.0 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. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 7.7 cases per 100,000 population and 26.7 per 100,000 population in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 57 tests on Sunday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 16 on Friday.
