The province this morning is reporting 1,536 new COVID-19 cases, with one death.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 74 new cases since Friday with 49 resolved.
There was one new death, an Elgin woman in her 80s. The death toll is 106 since the pandemic began.
There are 19 new cases in St. Thomas, eight in Aylmer, six in Dutton/Dunwich, four in Central Elgin, three in Southwold and one each in Bayham and Malahide.
There are 225 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 64 in St. Thomas, 40 in Woodstock, 32 in Tillsonburg, 26 in Aylmer, 14 in Ingersoll, 10 in Norwich, seven in Dutton/Dunwich, five in Central Elgin, Malahide and SW Oxford, four in Bayham and Zorra, three in Southwold, Blandford-Blenheim and East Zorra-Tavistock.
At the end of October there were only five ongoing cases in St. Thomas and the city has now surpassed 1,000 cases since the pandemic began.
As of today, more than 99 per cent of all cases are of the Delta variant.
There are nine resident cases and eight staff cases at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas.
There are 14 hospitalizations at this time, with seven in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 34.8 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
One hundred and fifty-nine of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 61 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 5,375.
A total of 155,845 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.2 per cent.
There are 106.4 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 66.6 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 164.5 cases per 100,000 population and 347.0 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 141 tests Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 52 Friday.
