The Windsor Essex County Health Unit has announced 117 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County as of Sunday, bringing the local total to 5,734.
Cases increased from 5,617 on Saturday December 19th to 5,734 on Sunday December 20th and 1,066 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.
The Health Unit says 7 cases are outbreak related, 4 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 1 case is community acquired, and 105 cases are still being investigated.
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They say 4,570 people locally have recovered (an increase of 56 recoveries today).
There have been three news deaths from COVID-19 as of Sunday bringing the local death toll to 98. The Health Unit says a woman in her 70s from the community, a man in his 80s from a long-term care home, and a woman in her 80s from a long-term care home, passed away.