The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 170 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Wednesday, bringing the local total to 8,846.
Cases increased from 8,676 on Tuesday January 5th to 8,846 on Wednesday January 6th and 2,464 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.
The Health Unit says 16 cases are outbreak-related, 6 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 2 cases are community acquired, and 146 cases are still being investigated.
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They say 6,195 people locally have recovered (an increase of 160 recoveries).
There have been seventeen new deaths from COVID-19 as of Wednesday bringing the local death toll to 187. The seventeen deaths are a new record daily number of COVID-19 deaths for Windsor Essex.
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The local health unit says it hopes to finish vaccinating all of the region s seniors facilities before the provincial Jan. 21 target.
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit says it will likely complete vaccinating seniors facilities prior to the province s Jan. 21 target. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)
Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks
Devonshire Retirement Residence (Windsor) has 2 resident cases and 0 staff cases
Iler Lodge (Essex) has 0 resident cases and 1 staff case
Chartwell Royal Oak Kingsville (Kingsville) has 0 resident cases and 1 staff case
Rosewood Erie Glen (Leamington) has 1 resident case and 0 staff cases
Chateau Park (Windsor) has 0 resident cases and 3 staff cases
Leamington Mennonite Home (Leamington) has 0 resident cases and 3 staff cases
Riverside Place (Windsor) has 0 resident cases and 3 staff cases
Brouillette Manor (Windsor) has 0 resident cases and 1 staff case
Augustine Villas (Kingsville) has 7 resident cases and 2 staff cases
Sunrise Assisted Living of Windsor (Windsor) has 4 resident cases and 4 staff cases
Snapshot of the pandemic in Windsor-Essex
Overall, 151 people in the region have died from COVID-19.
There have been 8,300 cases of COVID-19 recorded in the region, 2,416 of which remain active.
Three are close contacts of confirmed cases and two are community acquired and 192 cases ares still being investigated.
There are 103 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the region, according to the health unit, 18 of which are in the ICU.
There is one school outbreak at St. Rose Catholic Elementary School.
Three hospital outbreaks are also ongoing. One is at Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and the others are on two different floors at Windsor Regional Hospital s Met campus.
The Health Unit gave a breakdown for the past two days (due to no update on Friday):
257 cases are reported from December 31st, 2020
182 cases are reported from January 1st, 2021
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Cases increased from 7,646 on Thursday December 31st to 8,085 on Saturday January 2nd and 2,280 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.
The Health Unit says 60 cases are outbreak-related, 4 cases are community acquired, 1 case is a close contact of a confirmed case, and 374 cases are still being investigated.
They say 5,660 people locally have recovered (an increase of 84 recoveries).
There have been eight new deaths from COVID-19 since the Health Unit’s last update on Thursday, bringing the local death toll to 145. The Health Unit says: