1 New Case Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex As Of Friday, Weekly Epidemiological Summary Presented
Friday September 4th, 2020, 10:16am
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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit has confirmed 1 new case of COVID-19 as of Friday, bringing the local total to 2,542. They say 2,378 people locally have recovered.
Cases increased from 2,541 on Thursday September 3rd to 2,542 on Friday September 4th and 70 people are currently self-isolating with COVID-19.
The Health Unit says the one new case is a close contact of a confirmed case.
There have been no additional deaths due to COVID-19 as of Friday and the local death toll stands at 74.
As of Friday, the Health Unit says 17 people are hospitalized and 1 person is in the ICU with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Windsor Essex. Four of the hospitalizations are listed at Windsor Regional Hospital.
New Beginnings retirement home in Leamington remains under outbreak with 6 staff cases and 21 resident cases.
Workplace Outbreaks
As of Friday, the Health Unit says the following workplace is under outbreak (no changes compared to yesterday):
- 1 manufacturing facility (1 in Tecumseh)
A workplace outbreak is declared when two or more employees test positive for COVID-19 within a reasonable timeline to suspect transmission in the workplace, according to the Health Unit. Officials with the Health Unit have said a workplace will only be named if a threat to the public exists.
Weekly Epidemiological Summary
Dr. Wajid Ahmed, Medical Officer of Health says Windsor-Essex continues to see low cases overall; the primary source of exposure continues to be close contact with confirmed cases; hospitalizations have increased by ICU visits are low; day-over-day doubling time in Windsor-Essex is on par with the province and nationally; and the current rate of transmission (R0) is 0.83 indicating a decrease in transmission in Windsor-Essex.

This graph shows the geographic distribution of currently active cases in Windsor, per 1000 residents.