The province this morning is reporting 324 new COVID-19 cases with three new deaths while Southwestern Public Health is reporting seven new cases with five resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 32 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 12 in St. Thomas, 11 in Woodstock, three in Tillsonburg, two in Aylmer and West Elgin, and one each in Central Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock.
A total of 922 cases have been variants of concern with 104 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, 34.5 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-eight of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 10 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,886.
The health unit advises 145,140 individuals in the health unit’s coverage area have had at least one dose of vaccine by SWPH or 68.2 per cent of residents. Fifty-eight per cent of the population is fully immunized.
There are 15.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 14.0 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 30.8 cases per 100,000 population and 26.7 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 115 tests on Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Monday.
