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Sherri Spanjers of Tillsonburg, left, a worker in a dental clinic, received her first dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Elgin-Middlesex-London MPP and Ontario Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks Jeff Yurek during a Southwestern Public Health mass vaccination clinic at Memorial Arena in St. Thomas on Saturday morning, March 27. This was the…

Southwestern Public Health reported on Friday, March 26, the death of an Oxford man in his 60s which was linked to COVID-19. That brings to 68 the total number of such deaths in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford. The health unit also reported 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, up from eight on…

The fact that no long-term care or retirement homes are currently experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak is “a good indication of the power of vaccination,” Dr. Joyce Lock, medical officer of health for Southwestern Public Health, said during a weekly news briefing on Wednesday, March 24. She started by reporting the health unit had confirmed seven…

Southwestern Public Health reported on Monday, March 22, that 28 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Elgin, St. Thomas and Middlesex over the weekend. The total number of ongoing infections being tracked by the health unit stands at 75, up from 66 on Friday. (Southwestern, which used to provide daily updates, has stopped doing…

Southwestern Public Health has so far identified 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford involving a variant of the virus. Dr. Joyce Lock told a news briefing Wednesday, March 17, that all positive samples for COVID-19 were now receiving an additional laboratory test to identify the presence of one of two…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting 14 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Tuesday, March 16, up from nine on Monday. The health unit is tracking 72 ongoing cases across the region, up from 61 Monday. Aylmer and area remained at 18 cases, while St. Thomas rose to five on…

Southwestern Public Health is reporting 16 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Friday, March 12, up from six on Thursday. The health unit is now tracking 49 ongoing cases, up from 42 Thursday. Aylmer and area jumped to 19 ongoing cases Friday from 13 the previous day, while…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting just one new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Tuesday, March 9, down from eight on Monday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford also dropped, to 44 from 60. Aylmer and area decreased to 17 cases Tuesday from 29 Monday,…

Southwestern Public Health was reporting five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford on Saturday, March 6, down from seven on Friday. The number of ongoing cases being tracked by the health unit also fell, to 75 from 82. Aylmer and area, including the major outbreak at Ontario Police College, decreased…

Southwestern Public Health announced on Thursday, March 4, that two residents of the Elgin, St. Thomas and Oxford region had fallen ill with a COVID-19 “variant of concern,” but have already recovered. The health unit believed the virus was caught by the pair, who reside together, during travel outside of Canada. Megan Cornwell, on behalf…