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WINDSOR, ONT. Local paramedics have started visiting the homes of vulnerable residents to administer COVID-19 vaccines for those unable to travel to the region’s mass vaccination clinics. Paramedics with the Essex-Windsor EMS Vulnerable Patient Navigator (VPN) team vaccinated 44 residents of an apartment building on Thursday. These residents are 80 years and older and have pre-registered for the vaccination clinics but who would have experienced difficulty accessing the sites. The residents received their first Moderna vaccine dose and will be scheduled to receive their second. The VPN team will continue to vaccinate eligible residents in the same apartment building and will then move on to another.
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported 32 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday and three more deaths due to the virus.
Eight of the new cases were close contacts of confirmed cases, one is related to an outbreak, while eight are community acquired and 15 are still under investigation.
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A woman in her 80s and two men in their 70s who lived in the general community have died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the total number of local lives lost to 401.