Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Tuesday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 202 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Tuesday.

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 2 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases, 15 cases are community acquired, 3 cases are outbreak related, 2 cases are travel related, and the acquisition sources of 180 cases are still under investigation.

Total overall cases increased from 31,746 on Monday January 17th to 31,948 on Tuesday January 18th.

There are 4,083 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 1 case since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 350,157 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+294 since yesterday)
  • 21,731 people have received only their first dose of a vaccine (-40 since yesterday)
  • 328,426 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+334 since yesterday)
  • 163,801 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+1,741 since yesterday)
• A total of 842,384 vaccine doses have been administered to Windsor-Essex County residents (+2,369 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 79.9 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)
  • 84.9 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)
• 74.9 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (all ages) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
  • 79.6 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 37.3 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 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 27,346 total resolved cases.

That’s an increase of 194 resolved cases since yesterday.

Deaths

The Health Unit announced nine additional deaths from COVID-19 bringing the local death toll to 519:

• a man in his 60s from the community
• a woman in her 60s from the community
• two men in their 70s from the community
• a woman in her 70s from the community
• two men in their 80s from the community
• a man in his 90s from the community
• a woman in her 90s from the community

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 140 hospitalizations today: 120 people in acute care (increase of 18), and 20 people in the ICU (decrease 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
  • 106 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (increase of 22)
    • 63 fully vaccinated (decrease of 4)
    • 7 partially vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 36 unvaccinated (increase of 5)

• • • 72 of those in hospital, including the ICU, are being treated for COVID-19 (increase of 3)
      
      • 37 fully vaccinated (decrease of 2)
        
      • 4 partially vaccinated
        
      • 31 unvaccinated (increase of 5)
        

• • 13 total in the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (decrease of 1)
    • 2 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 10 unvaccinated

• • • 11 of those in the ICU are being treated for COVID-19 (decrease of 1)
      
      • 0 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
        
      • 1 partially vaccinated
        
      • 10 unvaccinated
        
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
  • Being primarily treated for COVID-19:
    • 4 fully vaccinated (2 doses)
    • 2 unvaccinated (decrease of 2)
  • Not being primarily treated for COVID-19, and asymptomatic:
    • 1 fully vaccinated (2 doses) (decrease of 2)
    • 0 unvaccinated
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare
  • 17 fully vaccinated (increase of 3)
  • 2 unvaccinated

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Congregate setting
  • 2 outbreaks in Amherstburg
  • 1 outbreak in Essex
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville
  • 1 outbreak in Lakeshore (outbreak ended)
  • 1 outbreak in LaSalle
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (outbreak ended)
  • 26 outbreaks in Windsor (decrease of 1)
• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Windsor
  • 3 outbreaks in Leamington
  • 6 outbreaks in Kingsville

School Outbreaks

• No current outbreaks.

Hospital Outbreaks

• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – 3N
  • Under outbreak since January 4th, 2022
  • 3 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette Campus – 6E
  • Under outbreak since January 7th, 2022
  • 2 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette Campus – 2N
  • Under outbreak since January 11th, 2022
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette Campus – 8N
  • Under outbreak since January 11th, 2022
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – Rehab 3
  • Under outbreak since January 12th, 2022
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette Campus – 7N
  • Under outbreak since January 12th, 2022

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

Note:  the Health Unit’s data again contained errors and has been removed.

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.