The province this morning is reporting 218 new COVID-19 cases with three deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting seven new cases, with four resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are 18 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 11 in Woodstock, four in St. Thomas, two in Blandford-Blenheim and one in Southwold.
A total of 868 cases have been variants of concern with 53 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.
Fourteen of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with seven of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,844.
The health unit advises 142,022 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 66.7 per cent of residents.
There are 8.5 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 9.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 10.3 cases per 100,000 population and there are no ongoing cases in Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 70 tests on Tuesday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 9 on Monday.
