Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Tuesday

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

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 22 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 7 cases are community acquired, 3 cases are outbreak related, and the acquisition sources of 13 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 22,850 on Monday December 13th to 22,894 on Tuesday December 14th

There are 597 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 24 since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 340,456 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+274 since yesterday)
  • 20,230 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+47 since yesterday)
  • 320,226 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+227 since yesterday)
  • 53,753 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+3,769 since yesterday)
• A total of 714,435 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+4,270 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 77.7 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)
  • 82.5 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)
• 73.1 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 77.6 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 12.2 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (increase of 0.8 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 21,815 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 65 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

The Health Unit announced three additional deaths from COVID-19 bringing the local death toll to 482. They say a woman in her 20’s from the community, a man in his 60’s from the community, and a man in his 70’s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 34 hospitalizations today: 20 people in acute care, and 14 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:
  • 30 total in hospital, including the ICU (increase of 1)
    • 13 fully vaccinated (increase of 4)
    • 1 partially vaccinated (decrease of 2)
    • 16 unvaccinated (decrease of 1)
  • 10 total in ICU (decrease of 1)
    • 5 fully vaccinated
    • 0 partially vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 5 unvaccinated
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington:
  • 4 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
  • 3 vaccinated or partially vaccinated (increase of 1)
• Less than 5 at Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 2 outbreaks in Leamington (no variant) (1 new outbreak)
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (no variant) (new outbreak)
• 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 (outbreak ended)
• Fitness and recreation
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant) (new outbreak)
• Health care and social assistance
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant) (outbreak ended)
• Manufacturing/Industrial
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant) (outbreak ended)
  • 7 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Professional, Technical and Scientific Services
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Repair and maintenance
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant) (new outbreak)
• Retail
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Social Event – Public
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (no variant)

School Outbreaks

• St. John Vianney Catholic Elementary School (outbreak ended)
• Stella Maris Catholic School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since November 29th, 2021
• Frank W. Begley Public School (outbreak ended)
• Centennial Central Public School (outbreak ended)
• Dr. David Suzuki Public School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 6th, 2021
• St. Anne French Immersion Catholic School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 7th, 2021
• Margaret D. Bennie Public School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 8th, 2021
• Leamington District Secondary School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 9th, 2021
• Our Lady of Annunciation Catholic School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 9th, 2021
• Hugh Beaton Public School
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 10th, 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
• Sun Parlor Home for Senior Citizens (Leamington)
  • New 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.