Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Friday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 73 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Friday. The Health Unit now only reports high-risk cases as testing eligibility is still limited.

Total Cases & Active Cases

Total overall cases increased from 37,322 on Thursday, February 24th to 37,398 on Friday, February 25th.

There are 295 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 21 cases since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 355,265 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+62 since yesterday)
• 340,552 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+146 since yesterday)
• 187,629 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+283 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 86.1 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)
• 82.5 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of < 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 53.3 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 18+) have received a 3rd dose/booster (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)

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.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 and the local death toll stands at 576.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit 49 hospitalizations today (increase of 10), and 9 of those hospitalizations are in the ICU.

Cases listed at local hospitals (note: these numbers are not updated at the same time as the Health Unit’s):

• Windsor Regional Hospital
  • 36 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (increase of 5)
    • 26 fully vaccinated (increase of 3)
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 10 unvaccinated (increase of 2)

• • • 19 of those in hospital, including the ICU, are being treated for COVID-19 (decrease of 2)
      
      • 13 fully vaccinated (decrease of 2)
        
      • 0 partially vaccinated
        
      • 6 unvaccinated
        

• • 4 total in the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19
    • 3 fully vaccinated
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 1 unvaccinated

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

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Congregate setting
  • 1 outbreaks in Essex (outbreak ended)
  • 2 outbreaks in Leamington (1 less outbreak)
  • 4 outbreaks in Windsor (3 less outbreaks)
• Agriculture
  
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville
• Social Event – Private
  • 1 outbreak on Pelee Island (new outbreak)

Hospital Outbreaks

• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – 2S
  • Under outbreak since February 22nd, 2022
  • 2 total cases (1 new case)

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

Note: the Health Unit lists total cases for current outbreaks, not the number of active cases.

• The Village at St. Clair (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since December 19th, 2021
  • 2 resident cases
  • 1 staff case
    
• The Village of Aspen Lake (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since December 29th, 2021
  • 1 resident case
  • 14 staff cases
• Extendicare Southwood Lakes (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since January 7th, 2022
  • 4 resident cases
  • 11 staff cases
• Chartwell Royal Oak Long Term Care Residence (Kingsville)
  • Under outbreak since January 10th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 19 staff cases
    
• Heron Terrace (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since February 19th, 2022
  • 0 resident cases
  • 2 staff cases
• Huron Lodge (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since February 20th, 2022
• La Chaumiere Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since February 13th, 2022
  • 10 resident cases
  • 4 staff cases
• Seasons Belle River – Belle River
  • Under outbreak since February 14th, 2022
• Bruce Villa Manor (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since February 17th, 2022
• Chartwell Oak Park Terrace Retirement Residence (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since February 22nd, 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.