The total number of ongoing confirmed cases of COVID-19 being tracked by Southwestern Public Health declined for the second day in a row on Thursday, Jan. 21. The health unit reported 271 ongoing cases Tuesday, down from 292 on Wednesday. However, another death was recorded linked to COVID-19 Thursday, an Oxford woman in her 70s…
Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce announced on Wednesday, January 20, that remote learning would continue for most school boards, including the Thames Valley District School Board. TVDSB, in its own statement, said “Students will not return to in-person learning on (Monday) January 25,” as originally planned. Students with complex special needs now attending in-school…
Southwestern Public Health reported a substantial decrease in both the number of new cases and the number of ongoing cases it is tracking in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Wednesday, Jan. 20. However, the health unit also recorded another death linked to COVID-19, an Oxford man, 83, residing at PeopleCare long-term care home in…
Woodstock and Oxford County Councillor Sandra Talbot has resigned from the Southwestern Public Health board. In a statement after a secret session of the board on Tuesday, Jan. 19, Chairman Larry Martin, Oxford County’s warden and mayor of Norwich, issued a statement reporting the resignation, and its acceptance. “Historically, Ms. Talbot has been a valuable,…
Southwestern Public Health reported on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the deaths of two Elgin women linked to COVID-19, one 88 and one 62. That brings the death toll in the Southwestern region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Woodstock to 47. Fourteen deaths involving COVID-19 have been reported in the last seven days. Southwestern recorded 31 new…
Southwestern Public Health recorded three more deaths linked to COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 18. The dead included an Oxford woman, 94, a resident of Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg, the site of a large-scale outbreak that has to date claimed 17 deaths. Two Oxford men, one 73 and one 75, also died. That brings…
Aylmer Police Chief Zvonko Horvat issued a statement Monday, Jan. 18, about how his officers will enforce Ontario’s current COVID-19 “Stay-at-home” order. Officers, he said, would not be entering homes or stopping cars and pedestrians for the sole purpose of enforcing that order. In addition, no one was required to carry proof he or she…
Southwestern Public Health reported on Sunday, Jan. 17, that two more deaths of Maple Manor Nursing Home residents in Tillsonburg had occurred, bringing the death toll there connected to the pandemic to 16. At the nursing home, 81 residents and 51 staff have tested positive for the virus, plus the 16 dead. The latest deaths…
Southwestern Public Health reported on Saturday, Jan. 16, the 14th death linked to a massive COVID-19 outbreak at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg. The fatality involved an Oxford man, 88. As of Saturday, 81 residents and 50 staff at Maple Manor were positive for COVID-19. The death brings to 40 the total number of…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 42 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on Friday, Jan. 15, down from 55 the previous day. However, the overall number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford rose to 385 from 369. St. Thomas and area increased to 75 cases Friday from…
St. Thomas Police Chief Chris Herridge issued a statement Thursday, Jan. 14, saying his officers won’t stop a pedestrian or vehicle or enter a home just to check on compliance with Ontario’s new “stay-at-home” order. He stated that St. Thomas Police would “continue to prioritize emergency response by referring pandemic-related complaints to City of St.…
Southwestern Public Health reported the deaths of two persons from Elgin County connected to COVID-19 on Thursday, Jan. 14. One, a resident at Carresant Care Bonnie Place in St. Thomas, was a woman, 82, and the other was a man, 79. The total number of deaths connected to COVID-19 in the Southwestern region of Elgin,…