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STEGH has surpassed its capacity for critical care due to COVID-19
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, in an urgent statement issued late Friday afternoon, Nov. 12, stated the number of patients requiring critical care there was at the highest since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of COVID-19 cases at STEGH was “increasing at an unprecedented rate,” it said. All 13 COVID-19 patients now…
Read MoreFifty-eight new cases in two days
Southwestern Public Health, after being closed Thursday for Remembrance Day, on Friday, Nov. 12, reported that 58 new cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, or an average of 29 a day. On Wednesday, 22 new cases had been announced. The number of ongoing confirmed cases being tracked by the…
Read MoreRemembrance Day in Aylmer
Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat, left, and Deputy Chief Nick Novacich saluted after laying a wreath from the Aylmer Police Association during the Remembrance Day service at the town Cenotaph on Thursday, Nov. 11. A large group of Ontario Police College recruits were on parade for the event, which was well-attended by local residents. Similar…
Read MoreAll COVID-19 patients unvaccinated: STEGH
St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital, in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 10, noted that a rising number of patients were being admitted with COVID-19, “all of whom are unvaccinated.” Cases in the Southwestern Public Health region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford “are rising at an alarming rate,” the hospital continued. “STEGH is experiencing our highest…
Read MoreCOVID-19 positivity rate climbs
The latest information on the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive for the virus in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford , from Oct. 31, sets that rate at 5.1 percent. That’s much higher than the 3.1 percent reported a week earlier. Southwestern Public Health Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joyce Lock stated, in response…
Read MoreHospitalizations rising again
Southwestern Public Health was reporting that 11 residents of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford were hopsitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, Nov. 10, with five of them in intensive care units. That’s up from eight hopsitalizations, with four in ICUs, from the previous day. Southwestern also recorded 22 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, up…
Read MoreSt. Thomas man, 56, dies after crash in Aylmer
A St. Thomas man, 56, died after a crash between a sports-utility vehicle and a transport truck in the area of Talbot and King streets in Aylmer on Tuesday night, Nov. 9, at 11:20 p.m. Aylmer Police Deputy Chief Nick Novacich said a 2005 Nissan Murano SUV was being driven east on Talbot Street East…
Read MoreSouthwestern reports 95th COVID-related death
Southwestern Public Health reported on Tuesday, Nov. 9, that an Elgin woman in her 50s with a confirmed case of COVID-19 had died, bringing the death toll in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford since the pandemic began to 95. On Tuesday, the health unit also reported 18 new confirmed cases in its area, about the…
Read MoreSt. Thomas motorcyclist sustains “life-altering” injuries
A St. Thomas motorcyclist, 59, sustained what Norfolk Ontario Provincial Police described as “life-altering injuries” in a collision with a pickup truck on Highway 3 at Courtland on Saturday, Nov. 6, at about 1:40 p.m. OPP Acting Sergeant Ed Sanchuk reported that the crash occurred at the intersection of Highway 3 and Rhineland Road. The…
Read MoreHospitalizations ease in Southwestern area
Southwestern Public Health reported Monday, Nov. 8, that nine residents of the Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford region were hospitalized with COVID-19, four of them in intensive care units. That’s down from 13 hospitalizations last Friday, but the number in ICUs has increased by one. Southwestern announced Monday that 52 new cases of COVID-19 had…
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