Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Wednesday

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

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 19 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 16 cases are community acquired, 3 cases are outbreak related, and the acquisition sources of 11 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 20,980 on Tuesday November 16th to 21,029 on Wednesday November 17th.

They say 309 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 29 since yesterday).

Variants of Concern

• 1,840 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)
• 3,211 of the total variant cases to date have been the Delta variant (B.1.617.2)
• 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):

• 327,890 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+158 since yesterday)
  • 13,901 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-127 since yesterday)
  • 313,989 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+285 since yesterday)
  • 10,511 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+481 since yesterday)
• A total of 652,390 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+924 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 74.8 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)
  • 86.4 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)
• 71.6 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 82.7 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 12+) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 2.3 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)

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

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 20,253 total resolved cases.

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

Deaths

The Health Unit announced one additional death from COVID-19 bringing the local death toll to 467. They say a man in his 70s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 18 hospitalizations today: 13 people in acute care, 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:
  • 15 total in hospital, including the ICU
    • 5 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 9 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
  • 5 total in ICU (increase of 1)
    • 1 fully vaccinated
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 4 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
  • 3 unvaccinated
  • 0 vaccinated or partially vaccinated
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Congregate setting
  • 3 outbreaks in Windsor (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (Delta variant)
• Construction
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)
• Fitness and recreation
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
  • 2 outbreaks in Tecumseh (Delta variant) (2 new outbreaks)
  • 1 outbreak in Lakeshore (Delta variant) (new outbreak)
• Healthcare and Social Assistance
  • 1 outbreak in Amherstburg (no variant) (new outbreak)
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant) (new outbreak)
• Manufacturing/Industrial
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
• Personal Service Setting
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (no variant)
• Professional, scientific, and technical services
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant) (1 less outbreak)
• Retail
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
• Social Event – Public
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (Delta variant) (new outbreak)

School Outbreaks

• École Élémentaire Catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (outbreak ended)
• Essex Public School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since November 8th, 2021
• St. Gabriel Catholic Elementary School (new outbreak)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since November 15th, 2021
• Leamington District Secondary School (new outbreak)
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since November 15th, 2021
• Riverside Secondary School (new outbreak)
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since November 15th, 2021

Hospital Outbreaks

• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – 4M
  • Delta variant
  • Under outbreak since November 12th, 2021

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• Chartwell Royal Oak Long Term Care Residence
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since November 12th, 2021
  • 1 total resident case
  • 1 total staff case

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.