Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update From The Weekend

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 233 new cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County from over the weekend. The Health Unit does not report case counts and statistics on weekends but provides a weekend summary. The Health Unit only reports high-risk cases as testing eligibility is still limited.

Total Cases & Active Cases

Of the 233 new cases:

• 101 were reported on February 26th
• 84 were reported on February 27th
• 48 were reported on February 28th

Total overall cases increased from 37,398 on Friday, February 25th to 37,646 on Monday, February 28th.

There are 283 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (decrease of 12 cases since Friday).

Vaccinations

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

• 355,407 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+142 since Friday)
• 341,080 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+528 since Friday)
• 188,486 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+857 since Friday)

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 Friday)
• 82.7 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.2 per cent since Friday)
• 53.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 18+) have received a 3rd dose/booster (increase of 0.1 per cent since Friday)

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 52 hospitalizations today (increase of 3), and 5 of those hospitalizations are in the ICU (decrease of 4).

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

• Windsor Regional Hospital
  • 41 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (increase of 5)
    • 27 fully vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 4 partially vaccinated (increase of 4)
    • 10 unvaccinated

• • • 24 of those in hospital, including the ICU, are being treated for COVID-19 (increase of 5)
      
      • 15 fully vaccinated (increase of 2)
        
      • 2 partially vaccinated (increase of 2)
        
      • 7 unvaccinated (increase of 1)
        

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

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

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

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

Hospital Outbreaks

• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – 2S
  • Under outbreak since February 22nd, 2022
  • 2 total cases
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – CC7 3S (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since February 24th, 2022
  • 1 total case
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan – 4W Oncology (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since February 25th, 2022
  • 1 total 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) (outbreak ended)
• 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
  • 3 staff cases (1 new case)
• Huron Lodge (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since February 20th, 2022
  • 0 resident cases
  • 1 staff case
• 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.