Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Friday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 98 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Friday.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 34 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 19 cases are community acquired, 2 cases are travel related, and the acquisition sources of 43 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 22,489 on Thursday December 9th to 22,587 on Friday December 10th.

There are 572 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 13 since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 338,830 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+423 since yesterday)
  • 19,448 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+237 since yesterday)
  • 319,382 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+186 since yesterday)
  • 44,197 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+2,539 since yesterday)
• A total of 702,409 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+3,148 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 77.3 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)
  • 82.1 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) have received at least one dose of a vaccine (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 72.9 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 77.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 10.0 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (increase of 0.5 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 21,536 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 84 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

The Health Unit announced one additional death from COVID-19 bringing the local death toll to 479. They say a man in his 50s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 30 hospitalizations today: 18 people in acute care (decrease of 1), and 12 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:
  • 22 total in hospital, including the ICU (increase of 1)
    • 6 fully vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 3 partially vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 13 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
  • 5 total in ICU (decrease of 2)
    • 1 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 3 unvaccinated (decrease of 1)
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
  • 5 unvaccinated (decrease of 2)
  • 3 vaccinated or partially vaccinated
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant) (outbreak ended)
• Congregate setting
  • 3 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant)
• Construction
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Correctional Facility
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (no variant)
• Distribution and Warehousing
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Health care and social assistance
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Hotel and Lodging
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)
• Manufacturing/Industrial
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
  • 6 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant) (1 new outbreak)
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Professional, Technical and Scientific Services
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Retail
  • 2 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant) (1 new outbreak)
• Social Event – Public
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (no variant)

School Outbreaks

• Malden Central Public School (outbreak ended)
• St. John Vianney Catholic Elementary School
  • No variant
  • 6 cases total
  • Under outbreak since November 29th, 2021
• Stella Maris Catholic School
  • No variant
  • 5 cases total
  • Under outbreak since November 29th, 2021
• Frank W. Begley Public School
  • No variant
  • 2 cases total
  • Under outbreak since December 3rd, 2021
• Centennial Central Public School
  • No variant
  • 3 cases total (1 new case)
  • Under outbreak since December 6th, 2021
• Dr. David Suzuki Public School
  • No variant
  • 2 cases total
  • Under outbreak since December 6th, 2021
• St. Anne French Immersion Catholic School
  • No variant
  • 2 cases total
  • Under outbreak since December 7th, 2021
• Margaret D. Bennie Public School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 8th, 2021

Hospital Outbreaks

• No current hospital outbreaks.

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• Chartwell Royal Oak Long Term Care Residence (Kingsville)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since November 12th, 2021
  • 7 total resident cases
  • 2 total staff cases
• Country Village Health Care (Woodslee)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 2nd, 2021
  • 2 total resident cases
  • 2 total staff cases

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.