One new COVID-19 case, one resolved in Oxford and Elgin counties
Oxford and Elgin counties and St. Thomas had one COVID-19 case resolved and one new one added, Southwestern public health confirmed Tuesday morning.
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A new case of COVID-19 was confirmed Tuesday morning in Oxford and Elgin counties and St. Thomas while another was resolved, Southwestern public health reported.
The new confirmed case is in St. Thomas while the resolved case comes from Woodstock.
The positive test brings the total in the Oxford and Elgin areas to 11 ongoing cases.
There have been 58 cases resolved in the health unit’s region.
Nine of the confirmed ongoing cases are in Oxford County, with four in Ingersoll, two in each of Tillsonburg and Woodstock and one in East Zorra-Tavistock. In Elgin County, there is one confirmed ongoing cases in Malahide and one in St. Thomas.
The lone active institutional outbreak in the region is at Second Trails Care Community in Ingersoll, which remains at eight. All confirmed positive cases are employees who are now self-isolating, the owner of the long-term care home, Sienna Senior Living, said in a release.
Second Trails is the first long-term care facility in Oxford County to have a confirmed COVID-19 outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic.
The health unit has completed 4,170 tests, with 3,856 coming negative results and a further 241 pending.
A total of 1.9 per cent of tests are positive, according to data from Southwestern public health.
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