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

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 44 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Wednesday.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 14 cases are community acquired, 14 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 1 case is travel related, and the acquisition sources of 15 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 19,070 on Tuesday September 14th to 19,114 on Wednesday September 15th.

They say 429 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 26 since yesterday).

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 3,750 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (increase of 50 since yesterday).

Variant case strains:

• 1,834 of the total variant cases to date have been the Alpha / U.K. Variant (B.1.1.7)
• 4 of the total variant cases to date have been the Beta / South African Variant (B.1.351)
• 16 of the total variant cases to date have been the Gamma / Brazilian Variant (P.1)
• 1,748 of the total variant cases to date have been the Delta / Indian Variant (B.1.617.2) (increase of 51 since yesterday)
• 2 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. The numbers listed are not necessarily correlated to today’s new cases due to the delay.

Vaccinations

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

• 308,752 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+382 since yesterday)
  • 26,486 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-76 since yesterday) *
  • 282,266 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+458 since yesterday)
• A total of 591,018 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+840 since yesterday)

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

Vaccination Percentages

• 70.49 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received at least one dose of a vaccine (increase of 0.09 per cent since yesterday)
  • 81.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) have received at least one dose of a vaccine (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 64.44 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.11 per cent since yesterday)
  • 74.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)

Note: The Health Unit says 438,001 people are living in Windsor and Essex County in 2021.

Getting A Vaccine (1st Dose)

• Mass Vaccination Clinics
  • Walk-in appointments are available at all mass vaccination sites for first doses, pending vaccine availability.
  • For full details visit WEVax.ca.
• Pharmacy Vaccinations
  • 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
  • Visit the Health Unit’s page on pop-up clinics here.

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

Getting A Vaccine (2nd Dose)

• Mass Vaccination Clinics:
  • For full eligibility details and to book visit WEVax.ca.
• Pharmacy Vaccinations
  • 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
  • Visit the Health Unit’s page on pop-up clinics here.

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 18,237 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 70 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 today and the local death toll stands at 448.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 16 hospitalizations today: 11 people in acute care (decrease of 3), and 5 people in the ICU (decrease of 1) with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Windsor Essex.

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

• Windsor Regional Hospital:
  • 13 total in hospital, including the ICU (increase of 1)
    • 6 fully vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 6 unvaccinated
  • 6 total in ICU
    • 1 fully vaccinated
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 4 unvaccinated
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
  • 5 unvaccinated
  • 2 vaccinated or partially vaccinated
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (no variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant)
  • 4 outbreaks in Leamington (all 4 are Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Health Care & Social Assistance
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant) (decrease of 1)
  • 1 outbreak in LaSalle (Delta variant)
  • 6 outbreaks in Windsor (all are Delta variant)
• Manufacturing
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
• Fitness and Recreational Sports Centres
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
• Retail
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)

Community Outbreaks

• South West Detention Centre (no variant)
• Leamington Kiwanis Camp (Delta variant)

School Outbreaks

• No current school outbreaks.

Hospital Outbreaks

• No current hospital outbreaks.

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• Berkshire Care Centre
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since September 4th, 2021
  • 1 resident case total since start of outbreak
  • 4 staff cases  total since start of outbreak

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.