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46 New Cases Of COVID-19 In Windsor Essex On Thursday

Thursday September 2nd, 2021, 9:50am

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 46 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Thursday.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 16 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 9 cases are community acquired, 4 cases are outbreak related, 1 case is travel related, and the acquisition sources of 16 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 18,230 on Wednesday September 1st to 18,276 on Thursday September 2nd.

They say 486 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 23 since yesterday).

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 3,138 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (increase of 144 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)
  • 1,136 of the total variant cases to date have been the Delta / Indian Variant (B.1.617.2) (increase of 158 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):

  • 301,248 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+467 since yesterday)
    • 26,499 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-55 since yesterday) *
    • 274,749 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+522 since yesterday)
  • A total of 575,997 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+989 since yesterday)

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

Vaccination Percentages

  • 68.77 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received at least one dose of a vaccine
    • 79.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) have received at least one dose of a vaccine
  • 62.72 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated
    • 72.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) are fully vaccinated

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
  • 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
  • Pop Up Clinics
    • Visit the Health Unit’s page on pop-up clinics here.

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 17,351 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 69 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 and the local death toll stands at 439.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 14 hospitalizations today: 9 people in acute care (decrease of 2), and 5 people in the ICU 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 2)
      • 0 partially vaccinated
      • 10 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 5 total in ICU (increase of 1)
      • 0 partially vaccinated
      • 4 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
    • Please note: Windsor Regional does not explicitly list the number of fully vaccinated in-patients, only unvaccinated and partially vaccinated. The data presented here is exactly as Windsor Regional provides it.
  • Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
    • 2 unvaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 vaccinated or partially vaccinated
  • Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

  • Agriculture
    • 1 outbreak in Leamington (Delta variant) (new outbreak)
  •  Construction
    • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
  • Food & Beverage
    • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant)
  • Health Care & Social Assistance
    • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
    • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant)
    • 6 outbreaks in Windsor (all are Delta variant) (1 new outbreak)
    • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
  • Manufacturing
    • 2 outbreaks in Windsor (both are Delta variant)
  • Personal Services Setting
    • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
  • Professional Services
    • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)

Community Outbreaks

  • Urban Field House – Lakeshore (new outbreak)
  • 2 outbreaks at Ciociaro Club – Tecumseh (both are Delta variant)
  • South West Detention Centre (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)

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.

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