Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Wednesday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 80 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Wednesday.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 23 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 24 cases are community acquired, and the acquisition sources of 33 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 22,300 on Tuesday December 7th to 22,380 on Wednesday December 8th.

There are 530 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 26 since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 337,956 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+461 since yesterday)
  • 18,960 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+249 since yesterday)
  • 318,996 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+212 since yesterday)
  • 39,386 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+2,183 since yesterday)
• A total of 696,338 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+2,856 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 77.1 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)
  • 81.9 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)
• 72.8 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 77.3 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 8.9 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (increase of 0.4 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 21,373 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 54 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 and the local death toll stands at 477.

Hospitalizations

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

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Congregate setting
  • 2 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)
• Finance and Insurance
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Health care and social assistance
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Hotel and Lodging
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
• Manufacturing/Industrial
  • 1 outbreak in Essex (Delta variant)
  • 5 outbreaks in Windsor (no variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (Delta variant)
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (no variant)
• Professional, Technical and Scientific Services
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant)
• Retail
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor (no variant) (new outbreak)
• Social Event – Public
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville (no variant)

School Outbreaks

• St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary School
  • Delta variant
  • 11 total cases
  • Under outbreak since November 15th, 2021
• W. F. Herman Academy Elementary School
  • No variant
  • 2 cases total
  • Under outbreak since November 23rd, 2021
• Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School (outbreak ended)
• Malden Central Public School
  • No variant
  • 5 cases total
  • Under outbreak since November 29th, 2021
• St. John Vianney Catholic Elementary School
  • No variant
  • 6 cases total
  • Under outbreak since November 29th, 2021
• Stella Maris Catholic School
  • No variant
  • 6 cases total (increase of 1)
  • 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
  • 2 cases total
  • 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 (new outbreak)
  • No variant
  • Under outbreak since December 7th, 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.