Southwestern Public Health on Monday morning, Nov. 2, announced that at least 31 persons residing in a Bayham bunkhouse had tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 29 cases had been listed in the health unit’s online daily update of the local situation Monday, but not all the congregate living numbers had yet been added…
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bayham jumped from one to a dozen on Monday, Nov. 2, Southwestern Public Health reported. Aylmer and St. Thomas remained steady at one case each. One new case turned up in South-West Oxford and two new cases in Tillsonburg. Woodstock declined slightly to 11 cases from 12 overnight.…
Southwestern Public Health was reporting a new confirmed case of COVID-19 in St. Thomas on Sunday, Nov. 1. In Elgin County, Aylmer and area continues to have one case and Bayham one. In Oxford, the number of cases in Woodstock and area declined slightly to 12 from 13. One new case appeared in Ingersoll and…
Southwestern Public Health was tracking one ongoing confirmed case of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area on Saturday, Oct. 31, down from three the previous day. One new case has appeared in Bayham. Woodstock and area saw its cases increase slightly to 13 from 12, while Tillsonburg remained steady at one. For the second time in…
Ally Van Velzer, left, Kylie Geurtjens and Mikayla Dunn, on behalf of the 2019-20 graduating class from East Elgin Secondary School, on Friday, Oct. 30, presented donations to Allison DeBlaire of 519 Pursuit for a sock drive for the homeless in London and area, Megan Mattingley of The Inside Ride charity fundraiser at EESS, Ali…
An employee at Chartwell Aylmer long-term care home who had contracted COVID-19 has now recovered, Southwestern Public Health reported on Friday morning, Oct. 30. That reduced the number of ongoing confirmed cases being tracked in Aylmer and area to three from four. Woodstock and area continues to have 12 cases and Tillsonburg and area one.…
Southwestern Public Health was tracking 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Woodstock and area on Thursday morning, Oct. 29. That city has seen a steady increases in cases in recent days. The health unit continues to monitor four ongoing cases in Aylmer and area and one in Tillsonburg and area. One Southwestern-area resident who had…
An effort by London Trustee Jake Skinner to delay the construction of a new elementary school in Belmont failed at a Thames Valley District School Board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 27. That paves the way for a property for the school to be purchased and plans for construction to continue. Trustee Skinner’s motion, to resubmit…
Southwestern Public Health reported Monday morning, Oct. 26, that it was tracking four ongoing confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area, down from six the previous day. No other cases were being monitored in the rest of Elgin County or St. Thomas. In Oxford, numbers were unchanged, with eight cases in Woodstock and area,…
Over 1,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were being reported in Ontario on Sunday, Oct. 25, a record high since the pandemic began. Locally, one case of COVID-19 was confirmed in a staff member at Secord Trails long-term care home in Ingersoll, which earlier this year had an outbreak involving eight staff members, all of…
Hundreds attended a “Freedom Rally” in Aylmer on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 24, describing COVID-19 precautions as fear tactics being used by all levels of government to oppress Canadians. “No one who’s healthy wears a face mask,” they chanted as they paraded through the downtown area, while a few passers-by yelled back, “Get vaccinnated” or “It’s…
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Aylmer and area doubled to six on Saturday, Oct. 24, from three the previous day, Southwestern Public Health reported. St. Thomas and area dipped slightly to two cases from three, and Tillsonburg and area remained at one. Woodstock and area also went down slightly, to five from…