66 New Cases Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex On Sunday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 66 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Sunday, bringing the local total to 14,803.

New Cases

Cases increased from 14,737 on Saturday April 17th to 14,803 on Sunday April 18th and 472 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.

The Health Unit says 28 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 12 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 26 cases are still being investigated by the Health Unit’s nursing staff.

The Health Unit says 458 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (an increase of 1 identified since yesterday).

Vaccinations

Here’s the Health Unit’s vaccination update for today:

• 118,676 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+1,049 since yesterday)
  • 105,988 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+1,017 since yesterday)
  • 12,688 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+32 since yesterday)
• A total of 131,364 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+1,081 since yesterday)

How To Get A Vaccine

There are two vaccination programs at this time:

• Mass Vaccination Clinics (Pfizer or Moderna)
  • Those eligible include:
    • Adults aged 50 and older living in “hot spot” postal code regions: N8X, N8Y, N9A, N9B, N9C, N8H, or N9Y
    • Adults aged 60 and older living anywhere in Windsor-Essex
    • Healthcare workers in the highest priority, very high priority or high priority groups
    • People with the highest risk, and high risk health conditions
  • Vaccination booking is available at this link: https://wait.crowdhandler.com/wechuvaccination
  • Or you can call 226-773-2200 (but the Health Unit says the call centre is only for assisting people who can’t use the website and the call centre has the same access to appointments as what’s shown on the website)
• Pharmacy Vaccinations (AstraZeneca)
  • Adults aged 55 and older can make an appointment at a participating pharmacy.
  • See the province’s pharmacy list and contact your chosen pharmacy directly to make an appointment: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations

For more information about vaccines and vaccination locally, visit WEVax.ca.

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 13,922 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 34 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 today and the local death toll stands at 409.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 20 hospitalizations today: 16 people in acute care (increase of 2 today), and 4 people in the ICU with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Windsor Essex.

Cases listed on local hospital websites (note: these numbers are not updated at the same time as the Health Unit’s):

• 21 at Windsor Regional Hospital (increase of 1 today)
• 0 at Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

• 1 outbreak at an agri-farm in Leamington
• 3 outbreaks at healthcare and social assistance workplaces in Windsor (1 outbreak is preliminary positive for a variant of concern)
• 1 outbreak at a manufacturing workplace in LaSalle
• 1 outbreak at a manufacturing workplace in Windsor

Community Outbreaks

• No current community outbreaks.

School Outbreaks

• St. John Vianney Catholic School

Hospital Outbreaks

• No current hospital outbreaks.

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• No current outbreaks.

Note: windsoriteDOTca News makes every effort to track the changes in COVID-19 data each day. These numbers are subject to change as the Health Unit makes changes to their numbers throughout each day, and errors and omissions sometimes occur with their data. Please see this page for the latest, most up to date data throughout each day.