The province this morning is reporting 591 new COVID-19 cases, with seven deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 22 new cases, with 24 resolved.
The death toll is 97 since the pandemic began.
There are five new cases each in St. Thomas and Aylmer and one in Bayham.
There are 165 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 38 in Aylmer, 31 in Tillsonburg and Woodstock, 22 in St. Thomas, 21 in Bayham, five in Norwich, four in Blandford-Blenheim and SW Oxford, two in Ingersoll and Zorra and one each in Central Elgin, Malahide, Southwold, West Elgin and East Zorra-Tavistock.
As of today, more than 99 per cent of all cases are of the Delta variant.
There are eight resident cases and two staff cases at Aylmer Retirement Residence in Aylmer and one staff case at Terrace Lodge in Malahide.
There are 16 hospitalizations at this time, with five in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.3 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
One hundred and one of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 40 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 4,956.
A total of 154,341 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 72.5 per cent.
There are 78.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 24.8 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 56.5 cases per 100,000 population and 507.2 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 149 tests Monday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 27 Monday.
