The province this morning is reporting 512 new COVID-19 cases, with 12 deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 26 new cases with 20 resolved.
The death toll is 95 since the pandemic began.
There are seven new cases in Bayham, five in St. Thomas and one each in Aylmer, Southwold and Malahide.
There are 167 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 42 in Woodstock, 35 in Aylmer, 29 in St. Thomas, 25 in Tillsonburg, 17 in Bayham, six in Norwich, four in SW Oxford, two in Malahide, West Elgin and Ingersoll and one each in Central Elgin, Southwold and Zorra.
As of today, more than 99 per cent of all cases are of the Delta variant.
There are no institutional cases reported.
There are 14 hospitalizations at this time, with seven in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.7 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
One hundred and twenty-one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 59 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,779.
A total of 153,489 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 72.1 per cent.
There are 79.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region – second in SW Ontario to Haldimand-Norfolk at 93.8 – as compared to 21.3 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 74.5 cases per 100,000 population and 467.2 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 173 tests Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 21 Monday.
