2 New Deaths, 28 New Cases Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex On Tuesday

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Last updated: Tuesday May 11th, 12:28pm: Details have been added to clarify the Health Unit’s direction on the Moderna vaccine at local pharmacies.

The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 28 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Tuesday, bringing the local total to 15,865.

New Cases

Cases increased from 15,837 on Monday May 10th to 15,865 on Tuesday May 11th and 329 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.

The Health Unit says 14 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 9 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 5 cases are still being investigated by the Health Unit’s contact tracing staff.

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 1,227 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (an increase of 69 identified since yesterday).

Variant case totals:

• 1,132 of the total variant cases to date have been the U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7) (increase of 67 identified since yesterday)
• 3 of the total variant cases to date have been the South African Variant (B.1.351)
• 4 of the total variant cases to date have been the Brazilian Variant (P.1)

The Health Unit says there is a time delay of several days between specimen collection, preliminary screening, and confirmation of a variant case’s strain.

They say 190 variants of concern cases are currently active active in Windsor-Essex.

Vaccinations

Here’s the Health Unit’s vaccination update for today (residents of Windsor-Essex):

• 181,264 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+4,598 since yesterday)
  • 166,931 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+4,477 since yesterday)
  • 14,333 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+121 since yesterday)
• A total of 195,597 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+4,719 since yesterday)

The Health Unit says Windsor-Essex’s total population in 2021 is approximately 438,001. As of today, 41.38 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine.

How To Get A Vaccine

There are three vaccination programs at this time:

• Mass Vaccination Clinics (Pfizer or Moderna)
  • Those eligible include:
    • Adults aged 40 and older in 2021 living anywhere in Windsor-Essex
    • Adults aged 18 and older in 2021 living in “hot spot” postal code regions: N8X, N8Y, N9A, N9B, N9C, N8H, or N9Y
    • Pregnant individuals
    • People with the “highest risk”, “high risk” and “at risk” health conditions
    • Healthcare workers in the “highest priority”, “very high priority” or “high priority” groups
    • Essential Workers Who Cannot Work from Home (Group 1)
  • See the province’s eligibility guide for full definitions of conditions and groups.
  • 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 40 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
• Pharmacy Vaccinations (Moderna)
  • Adults aged 18 and older in 2021 living in “hot spot” postal code regions: N8X, N8Y, N9A, N9B, N9C, N8H, or N9Y can make an appointment with a participating pharmacy.
  • Please note: Despite the province’s website stating the Moderna vaccine is available to adults 18 and over with no location restrictions, the Windsor Essex County Health Unit has directed that it is only available locally to residents living in hot spot postal codes.
  • See the province’s pharmacy list and contact your chosen pharmacy directly to make an appointment: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations/moderna

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

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 15,117 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 64 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

The Health Unit announced two additional deaths from COVID-19 today bringing the local death toll to 419. They say a woman in her 60s from the community, and a man in his 70s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 15 hospitalizations of people from Windsor-Essex today: 12 people in acute care (decrease of 7), and 3 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):

• 46 at Windsor Regional Hospital (decrease of 12 today)
  • 14 patients are from Windsor-Essex (decrease of 8 today)
  • 32 patients have been transferred in from other regions (decrease of 4 today)
• 2 at Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

• 1 outbreak at an agri-farm in Leamington (positive for the U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)
• 1 outbreak at an agri-farm in Kingsville (positive for the U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)
• 1 outbreak at a construction workplace in Tecumseh (positive for the U.K. Variant B.1.1.7) (outbreak ended)
• 1 outbreak at a healthcare and social assistance workplace in Windsor (1 less outbreak today)
• 1 outbreak at a manufacturing workplace in Windsor (positive for the U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)
• 2 outbreaks at retail workplaces in Windsor (positive for the U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)

Community Outbreaks

• Southwest Detention Centre

School Outbreaks

• No current school outbreaks.

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.