The province this morning is reporting 1,429 new COVID-19 cases, with five deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 23 new cases, with 13 resolved.
The death toll is 106 since the pandemic began.
There are seven new cases in St. Thomas, two in Central Elgin and West Elgin and one each in Dutton/Dunwich and Malahide.
There are 235 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 69 in St. Thomas, 38 in Woodstock, 31 in Tillsonburg, 25 in Aylmer, 15 in Ingersoll, 13 in Norwich, eight in Dutton/Dunwich, six in Malahide and SW Oxford, five in Central Elgin, four in Bayham and Zorra, three each in Southwold, Blandford-Blenheim and East Zorra-Tavistock and two in West Elgin.
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, 34.7 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
On this date last year, three people were hospitalized with two of those in the ICU.
One hundred and sixty-six 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 5,388.
A total of 155,845 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.2 per cent.
There are 111.1 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 87.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 177.3 cases per 100,000 population and 333.7 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 167 tests Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 52 Friday.
