Aylmer Police have charged a Sparta man, 34, with disturbing a religious worship service held at Aylmer Church of God on John Street North in Aylmer on Sunday, Jan. 3. Police Chief Zvonko Horvat reported that the service started at 10:30 a.m. Police were alerted to a disturbance created when the Sparta man became engaged…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting two more deaths linked to COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 4, bringing the total to date in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford to 16. The health unit said both were related to a large outbreak at Maple Manor long-term care home in Tillsonburg. One of the fatalities was a man in…
Elgin County announced Sunday night, Jan. 3, that a staff member at Terrace Lodge long-term care home in Malahide had tested positive for COVID-19. That brought the total number of current ongoing staff cases there to four, the county stated. No Terrace Lodge residents have tested positive to this point. Any resident or employee “showing…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 44 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, Dec. 3, which was down from a new record daily high of 75 the previous day, but the total number of ongoing cases in the region still rose to 371 from 347. The infection rate across the Southwestern area now stands at…
Southwestern Public Health on Saturday, Jan. 2, was reporting the 14th-death in its region linked to COVID-19. This death, involving an Oxford man in his 50s, was the second in two days. Between Thursday, Dec. 31, and Saturday, Southwestern reported 93 confirmed new cases in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, including 18 on New Year’s…
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Southwestern Public Health on Thursday, Dec. 31, reported its 13th death linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The health unit stated the death involved a man in his 90s from Oxford County. The number of confirmed new cases of COVID-19 in the Southwestern Public Health region jumped by 71 on Thursday, Dec. 31, to…
Southwestern Public Health on Thursday, Dec. 31, recorded its biggest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases after recording 71 confirmed new cases. The previous record, 47, was set on Dec. 21. In a statement issued on Dec. 31, the health unit said that new forecasts indicated 100 or more daily new cases starting in early January.…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting 29 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Middlesex on Wednesday, Dec. 30, up slightly from 27 the previous day, but the overall number of ongoing cases being tracked dipped to 263 from 271. The number of confirmed ongoing cases in Aylmer and area dropped to 50…
Ontario set a daily record for new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 2,553. In the Southwestern Public Health region of Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford, 27 new cases were reported Tuesday, the same as Monday, but the total number of ongoing cases rose to 274 from 263. The number of cases in Aylmer…
Aylmer Police announced early Tuesday, Dec. 29, that additional charges had been laid in connection with a drive-in service at the Church of God on John Street North on Sunday, Dec. 27, including obstructing a peace officer and intimidation of a justice participant, specifically a police officer. The charges were laid against a Malahide man,…
Aylmer and area so far during the COVID-19 pandemic has recorded 234 confirmed cases, both ongoing and resolved, far more than the much larger communities of Woodstock and area at 182 and St. Thomas and area at 180. Trailing behind those three leaders, according to Southwestern Public Health records, are Tillsonburg and area at 129…