The province this morning is reporting 694 new COVID-19 cases with no deaths, with 527 of those new cases in individuals not fully vaccinated or vaccination status unknown.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting nine new cases since Friday, with 13 resolved. There were three new cases in St. Thomas and one in Dutton-Dunwich.
The death total remains at 84 since the pandemic began.
There are now 24 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with eight in St. Thomas, seven in Ingersoll, three in Woodstock, two in Tillsonburg and a single case each in Aylmer, Dutton-Dunwich, SW Oxford and Zorra.
A total of 990 cases have been variants of concern with 166 confirmed cases of the Delta variant.
There are no active institutional cases.
There is one individual hospitalized at this time, not in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.4 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Twenty-one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with eight of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 3,967.
A total of 136,795 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 64.2 per cent.
There are 11.3 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 45.9 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 20.6 cases per 100,000 population and 13.3 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 93 tests on Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 13 on Friday.
