WINDSOR, ONT. The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reporting 1,104 residents in two hot spot postal codes lined up Monday morning to get vaccinated. “We would like to thank those who braved the weather and the lines to be vaccinated,” says WECHU CEO Theresa Marentette. “Everyone who received a vaccine were very appreciative…Our own staff felt it was very rewarding.” Marentette says 702 vaccines were administered at St. Angela Centre and Hall while 402 were administed at Mackenzie Hall for inidividuals 18 and older living or working in postal codes N9A and N9C. The WECHU issued a news release around 1 p.m. saying they had reached the end of their vaccine allocation for the clinics. Final results found 80 per cent of those vaccinated were between the ages of 20 and 39 years old.
New Cases
Cases increased from 15,568 on Monday May 3rd to 15,596 on Tuesday May 4th and 386 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.
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The Health Unit says 11 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 4 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 13 cases are still being investigated by the Health Unit’s contact tracing staff.
Variants of Concern
The Health Unit says 974 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (an increase of 40 identified since yesterday).
Variant case totals:
886 of the total variant cases to date have been the U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7) (increase of 38 identified since yesterday)
Sanibel Public Meetings
The following public meetings/hearings are scheduled:
– May 11: Sanibel Planning Commission meeting at 9 a.m. in MacKenzie Hall at City Hall, at 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel. For more information or the agenda, visit www.mysanibel.com.
– May 12: Sanibel Fire and Rescue District monthly meeting at 9 a.m. at Station 171, at 2351 Palm Ridge Road, Sanibel. For more information or the agenda, visit www.sanibelfire.com.
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Windsor’s first-ever walk-up pop-up vaccine clinics ran out of doses mere hours after opening Monday morning with hundreds arriving early and braving rainfall to roll up their sleeves.
A line of more than 200 wrapped around Mackenzie Hall and the former Windsor Jail beside it by 8:45 a.m., 15 minutes before the one-day COVID-19 vaccine clinic officially opened its doors to let a few clients in. So many showed up that the local health unit decided to allot the west-end pop-up an extra 150 doses.
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