Britain is in discussions with Oxford and AstraZeneca to obtain additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, to determine its effectiveness against the South African Covid variant
Britain is in discussions with Oxford and AstraZeneca to obtain additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine, to determine its effectiveness against the South African Covid variant
New Cases
Cases increased from 16,608 on Friday June 4th to 16,625 on Saturday June 5th and 163 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.
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The Health Unit says 8 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 3 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 6 cases are still being investigated by the Health Unit’s contact tracing staff.
Variants of Concern
The Health Unit says 1,845 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (an increase of 14 identified since yesterday).
Variant case totals:
1,705 of the total variant cases to date have been the Alpha / U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7) (increase of 12 today)