The province this morning is reporting 3,784 new COVID-19 cases, with no new deaths.
Southwestern Public Health is reporting 128 new cases since Friday, with 48 resolved.
The death toll is 108 since the pandemic began.
There are 23 new cases in St. Thomas, 11 in Malahide, seven in Central Elgin, five in Aylmer and Dutton/Dunwich, two in Bayham and West Elgin and one in Malahide and Southwold.
There are 313 ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area with 74 in St. Thomas and Woodstock, 25 in Ingersoll, 21 in Tillsonburg, 17 in Central Elgin, 16 in Aylmer, 14 in Norwich, 13 in Dutton/Dunwich, 11 in SW Oxford, 10 in Blandford-Blenheim, nine in Zorra, eight in Malahide and East Zorra-Tavistock, five in Bayham and four in Southwold and West Elgin.
One year ago today, there were 158 confirmed ongoing cases in the health unit’s coverage area,
More than 99 per cent of all cases are of the Delta variant.
There are 11 resident cases and nine staff cases and one death at Caressant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas.
There are 10 hospitalizations at this time, with six in ICU. Of the cases hospitalized since the pandemic began, 35.2 per cent were admitted to the ICU.
Two hundred and twenty-nine of the cases are individuals under the age of 50, with 88 of those under the age of 20.
The number of resolved cases is 5,542.
A total of 156,555 residents in the region have been fully immunized or 73.5 per cent.
There are 148.0 ongoing confirmed cases per 100,000 population in the SWPH region as compared to 125.7 per 100,000 in the Middlesex-London Health Unit region. The crude rate for St. Thomas is 190.2 cases per 100,000 population and 213.6 cases per 100,000 population for Aylmer.
The assessment centre at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital undertook 170 tests Saturday. The West Elgin Community Health Centre did 58 Friday.
