Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Thursday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 558 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Thursday.

NOTE: The Health Unit stresses that due to the recent surge in Omicron cases and changes in eligibility for testing, testing capacity is limited and case, contact, and outbreak management has been modified to focus on high-risk settings. As a result, they say case counts are an underestimate of the true number of individuals with COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex.

New & Total Cases

The Health Unit says 52 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 48 cases are community acquired, 2 cases are outbreak related, 3 cases are travel related, and the acquisition sources of 453 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 27,175 on Wednesday January 5th to 27,733 on Thursday January 6th.

There are 2,526 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 118 cases since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 359,563 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+348 since yesterday)
  • 25,075 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (+64 since yesterday)
  • 334,488 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+284 since yesterday)
  • 136,926 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+4,967 since yesterday)
• A total of 830,977 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+5,599 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 82.1 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)
  • 87.1 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)
• 76.3 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 81.0 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 31.2 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (increase of 1.1 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 18+. 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 24,710 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 440 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 and the local death toll stands at 497.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 49 hospitalizations today: 40 people in acute care (increase of 3), and 9 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
  • 44 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (increase of 6)
    • 25 fully vaccinated (increase of 3)
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 18 unvaccinated (increase of 3)

• • • 34 of those in hospital, including the ICU, are being treated for COVID-19 (increase of 4)
      • 18 fully vaccinated (increase of 2)
      • 1 partially vaccinated
        
      • 15 unvaccinated (increase of 2)

• • 6 total in the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19
    • 0 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 partially vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 5 unvaccinated

• • • 6 of those in the ICU are being treated for COVID-19
      
      • 0 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
        
      • 1 partially vaccinated (increase of 1)
        
      • 5 unvaccinated
        
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
  • 3 unvaccinated
  • 2 vaccinated or partially vaccinated (decrease of 2)
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare
  • Less than 5

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Congregate setting
  • 6 outbreaks in Windsor (1 new outbreak)
  • 2 outbreaks in Lakeshore
  • 1 outbreak in Essex
  • 1 outbreak in LaSalle (new outbreak)
• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington (new outbreak)

School Outbreaks

• Olivia DiMaio Early Childhood Centre, Lakeshore
  • Under outbreak since December 21st, 2021
• George P Vanier Elementary School
  • Under outbreak since December 21st, 2021
• Delta Chi Hospital Campus
  • Under outbreak since December 22nd, 2021
• Academie Ste. Cecile Child Enrichment Centre (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since December 31st, 2021

Hospital Outbreaks

• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since January 4th, 2022

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

• Sun Parlor Home for Senior Citizens (Leamington)
  • Under outbreak since December 13th, 2021
  • 0 total resident cases
  • 9 total staff cases
• Heron Terrace (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since December 29th, 2021
• The Village of Aspen lake (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since December 3rd, 2021
  • 0 total resident cases
  • 2 total staff cases
• Seasons Royal Oak (LaSalle)
  • Under outbreak since December 31st, 2021
• Chateau Park Long Term Care Centre (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since January 1st, 2022
  • 0 total resident cases
  • 3 total staff cases
• Seasons Retirement Communities (Amherstburg)
  • Under outbreak since January 1st, 2022
• Huron Lodge Long Term Care Home (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since January 2nd, 2022
• Devonshire Retirement Residence (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since January 4th, 2022

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.