10 New Cases Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex On Saturday

Saturday June 12th, 2021, 10:38am

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 10 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Saturday, bringing the local total to 16,718.

New Cases

Cases increased from 16,708 on Friday June 11th to 16,718 on Saturday June 12th and 122 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.

The Health Unit says 5 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 3 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 2 cases are still being investigated by the Health Unit’s contact tracing staff.

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 1,908 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (increase of 7 today)

Variant case totals:

1,752 of the total variant cases to date have been the Alpha / U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7) (increase of 6 today)
4 of the total variant cases to date have been the Beta / South African Variant (B.1.351)
12 of the total variant cases to date have been the Gamma / Brazilian Variant (P.1)
1 of the total variant cases to date has been the Delta / Indian Variant (B.1.617.2)
1 of the total variant cases to date has been the Kappa / Indian Variant (B.1.617.1)

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 56 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):

264,246 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+680 since yesterday)
- 193,258 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-5,100 since yesterday) *
- 70,988 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+5,780 since yesterday)
A total of 335,234 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+6,460 since yesterday)

* this number is decreasing as people who *only* received their first dose become people with two doses

Vaccination Percentages

60.32 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received at least one dose of a vaccine
16.20 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated

Notes: Updated 18+ percentages are only provided by the Health Unit on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The Health Unit says 438,001 people are living in Windsor and Essex County in 2021.

Getting A Vaccine (1st Dose)

There are three vaccination programs at this time:

Mass Vaccination Clinics (Pfizer or Moderna)
- Those eligible include:
  - People 12 years of age and older.
  - First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Populations
- See WEVax.ca 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
- People aged 18 and older (Moderna)
- People aged 12 and older (Pfizer)
- See the province’s pharmacy list and contact your chosen pharmacy directly to make an appointment: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/vaccine-locations/
Pop Up Clinics
- None at this time.

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

Getting A Vaccine (2nd Dose)

Pfizer/Moderna:
- Those eligible include:
  - People 70 years of age and older.
  - Anyone who received their first dose of Pfizer or Moderna on or before April 18th, 2021
- For more information visit WEVax.ca.
AstraZeneca:
- People can now receive their second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
- Visit the Health Unit’s website for full details.

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 16,163 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 19 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 today and the local death toll stands at 433.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 13 hospitalizations of people from Windsor-Essex today: 10 people in acute care, and 3 people in the ICU (increase of 1) 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):

13 at Windsor Regional Hospital
- 12 patients are from Windsor-Essex (increase of 1)
- 1 patient has been transferred in from another region (decrease of 1)
0 at Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

1 outbreak at a healthcare and social assistance workplaces in Windsor (positive for the Alpha / U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)
2 outbreaks at manufacturing workplaces in Tecumseh (1 outbreak is preliminary positive for a variant)

Community Outbreaks

Casa de Dios y Puerta del Cielo
Southwest Detention Centre (positive for the Alpha / U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)

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.