Southwestern Public Health announced Thursday, Jan. 28, the 56th death linked to COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. The Oxford woman in her 90s had been a resident at Trillium Retirement Home in Norwich, the health unit reported. Southwestern also recorded 24 new confirmed cases of the virus across the region on Thursday, up…
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced Thursday, Jan. 28, that children in Thames Valley District School Board and London District Catholic School Board who wanted to could return to in-person classrooms effective Monday, Feb. 1, but that was later amended. Elementary children can return to classes on Monday, Feb. 1, but secondary students won’t until…
All residents of long-term care homes in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford had received the first injection of COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, Jan. 25, Southwestern Public Health Medical Officer of Health announced on Wednesday, Jan. 27. A total of 1,100 residents had received their initial vaccination, she said, and should get their second within 21…
Southwestern Public Health reported only six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Wednesday, Jan. 27, down from 13 the previous day. The number of ongoing cases being tracked also took a big drop, to 184 from 230. St. Thomas and area decreased to 25 cases from 27, Aylmer and…
Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat, in a statement Wednesday, Jan. 27, said that 47 persons who were in violation of COVID-19 emergency orders at an indoor and outdoor gathering at Aylmer Church of God on Sunday, Jan. 24, had been identified. Officers were now in the process of handing out tickets to 29 local participants,…
While the number of ongoing cases of COVID-19 has steadily declined over the last week, seven deaths in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford were still linked to the virus by Southwestern Public Health. That’s half the 14 deaths announced in the previous week. The latest fatality was reported on Tuesday, Jan. 26, involved an Elgin…
Southwestern Public Health reported the death of an Elgin man in his 60s linked to COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 25, bringing the death toll connected to the pandemic in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford to 54. On a more positive note, the health unit announced only nine confirmed new cases of the virus on Monday,…
Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat, in a statement Monday, Jan. 25, announced that a Church of God service held on Sunday, Jan. 24, was under investigation for “blatant” alleged violations of Ontario’s COVID-19 emergency orders. Police were identifying individuals who participated and the event’s organizer, he said. Those determined to have broken emergency orders would…
An Elgin man in his 70s has become the 53rd death linked to COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, Southwestern Public Health reported on Sunday, Jan. 24. Confirmed COVID-19 cases, which had been in general decline in the area, made a resurgence, with 40 new cases on Sunday, up from 26 on Saturday. The…
Southwestern Public Health on Saturday, Jan. 23, reported three more deaths linked to COVID-19 in the massive outbreak at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg, bringing the total death toll there to 20, in a facility that houses 92 residents. Overall, the number of deaths connected to the virus in the Southwestern region of Elgin,…
Southwestern Public Health reported 15 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, Jan. 22, up slightly from 14 on Thursday. The health unit was tracking 255 ongoing cases on Friday, down from 271 the previous day and continuing a downward trend over the last few days. St. Thomas and…
Southwestern Public Health, in a new weekly news briefing on Thursday, Jan. 21, provided more detailed numbers on the massive outbreak of COVID-19 that has claimed the lives of 17 residents at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg. Medical Officer of Health Dr. Joyce Lock, in response to a question, said the home had so…