The province this morning is reporting 486 new COVID-19 cases with 18 deaths – 16 of them from several months ago – with 372 of those new cases in individuals not fully vaccinated or vaccination status unknown.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting a single new case in St. Thomas with six resolved.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 27 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 12 in St. Thomas, three each in Aylmer and Woodstock, two in Bayham, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg and a single case each in Dutton-Dunwich, Southwold and SW Oxford.
A total of 968 cases have been variants of concern with 145 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There are two individuals hospitalized at this time, neither in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.1 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-one 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 3,943.
A total of 133,228 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 62.6 per cent.
There are 12.8 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 47.1 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 40.0 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 99 tests on Friday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 19 on Friday.
