9 New Cases Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex On Wednesday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 9 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Wednesday, bringing the local total to 16,751.

New Cases

Cases increased from 16,742 on Tuesday June 15th to 16,751 on Wednesday June 16th and 89 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex.

The Health Unit says 6 cases are community acquired, and 3 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases.

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 1,919 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (increase of 1 today).

Variant case totals:

• 1,763 of the total variant cases to date have been the Alpha / U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7) (increase of 1 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 28 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):

• 266,287 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+612 since yesterday)
  • 177,625 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-5,966 since yesterday) *
  • 88,662 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+6,578 since yesterday)
• A total of 354,949 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+7,190 since yesterday)

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

Vaccination Percentages

• 60.79 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received at least one dose of a vaccine
  • 72.8 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (18 years of age or older) have received at least one dose of a vaccine
• 20.24 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated
  • 25.5 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (18 years of age or older) 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
  • June 16th (details here)

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 16,229 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 13 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 10 hospitalizations of people from Windsor-Essex today: 7 people in acute care (decrease of 4), 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):

• 11 at Windsor Regional Hospital (decrease of 3)
  • 10 patients are from Windsor-Essex (decrease of 3)
  • 1 patient has been transferred in from another region
• 1 at Erie Shores hospital in Leamington (increase of 1)
• 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 positive for the Alpha / U.K. Variant B.1.1.7)

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.