Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Thursday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 33 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Thursday.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 10 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 11 cases are community acquired, 1 case is travel related, 1 case is outbreak related, and the acquisition sources of 10 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 20,119 on Wednesday October 13th to 20,152 on Thursday October 14th.

They say 261 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 14 since yesterday).

Variants of Concern

The Health Unit says 4,646 preliminary or confirmed variant of concern cases have been identified to date (increase of 54 since yesterday).

Variant case strains:

• 1,839 of the total variant cases to date have been the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7)
• 4 of the total variant cases to date have been the Beta variant (B.1.351)
• 16 of the total variant cases to date have been the Gamma variant (P.1)
• 2,637 of the total variant cases to date have been the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) (increase of 66 since yesterday)
• 2 of the total variant cases to date has been the Kappa 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):

• 320,478 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+445 since yesterday)
  • 19,103 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-220 since yesterday)
  • 301,375 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+665 since yesterday)
  • 4,457 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+43 since yesterday)
• A total of 626,310 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+1,153 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 73.1 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received at least one dose of a vaccine (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 84.5 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) have received at least one dose of a vaccine (increase of 0.2 per cent since yesterday)
• 68.8 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.2 per cent since yesterday)
  • 79.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.2 per cent since yesterday)

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

Getting A Vaccine

• 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 / Destination Vaccination Bus
  • Visit the Health Unit’s page on pop-up clinics here
• 3rd doses / booster shots
  • Third Doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine are available for select vulnerable populations. Further information is available here: https://www.wechu.org/cv/clinics#third-dose

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

Resolved Cases

The Health Unit lists 19,432 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 18 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

The Health Unit announced one additional death from COVID-19 today bringing the local death toll to 459. They say a man in his 70’s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 9 hospitalizations today: 1 person in acute care (decrease of 3), and 8 people in the ICU (increase 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:
  • 8 total in hospital, including the ICU
    • 2 fully vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 6 unvaccinated (decrease of 1)
  • 4 total in ICU (decrease of 2)
    • 1 fully vaccinated
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 3 unvaccinated (decrease of 2)
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
  • 0 unvaccinated
  • 1 vaccinated or partially vaccinated
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)
  • 2 outbreaks in Leamington (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant) (new outbreak)
  • 3 outbreaks in Tecumseh (Delta variant)
  • 2 outbreaks in Tecumseh (no variant)
• Food & Beverage
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Health Care & Social Assistance
  • 2 outbreaks in Windsor (Delta variant)
    
  • 2 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant) (1 new outbreak)
• Manufacturing
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
• Public Administration
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)

Community Outbreaks

• The Downtown Mission (no variant) (outbreak ended)
• The Salvation Army (Delta variant)

School Outbreaks

• St. Anne French Immersion Catholic School (new outbreak)
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since October 12th, 2021
• Northwood Public School (new outbreak)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since October 12th, 2021
• Marlborough Public School (new outbreak)
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since October 12th, 2021
• École élémentaire Louise-Charron
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since October 6th, 2021
• École élémentaire catholique Georges-P.-Vanier
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since October 1st, 2021
• École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Ursule
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since September 28th, 2021

Hospital Outbreaks

• No current hospital outbreaks.

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• Augustine Villas (Kingsville) (new outbreak)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since October 13th, 2021
  • 1 total resident cases since start of outbreak
  • 0 total staff cases since start of outbreak
• La Chaumiere (Belle River) (outbreak ended)

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.