Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Wednesday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 124 new high risk cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Wednesday. Testing is still limited to high risk individuals only the province estimates actual COVID-19 cases are around 10 times higher than what is being reported.

Total Cases & Active Cases

Total overall cases increased from 39,668 on Tuesday, March 29th t0 39,796 on Wednesday, March 30th.

There are 328 cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 59 active cases since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 356,373 people have received at least one dose of a vaccine (+45 since yesterday)
• 343,993 people have received both doses of a vaccine (+149 since yesterday)
• 192,890 people have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine (+184 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 86.3 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)
• 83.4 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 50.8 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

• For information about vaccines and getting vaccinated locally, visit WEVax.ca.

Deaths

There have been no additional deaths from COVID-19 and the local death toll stands at 592.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 41 hospitalizations today (decrease of 1), and 5 of those hospitalizations are in the ICU (increase of 1).

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

• Windsor Regional Hospital
  • 33 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (decrease of 1)
    • 23 fully vaccinated (increase of 1)
    • 4 partially vaccinated
    • 6 unvaccinated (decrease of 2)

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

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

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

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Congregate setting
  • 4 outbreaks in Windsor
  • 1 outbreak in Leamington
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh

Hospital Outbreaks

• Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan – 6N (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since March 28th, 2022
  • 7 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – 8E (outbreak ended)
• Erie Shores Healthcare – Medsurge/2 Centre
  • Under outbreak since March 24th, 2022
  • 2 total cases (1 new case)
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – MED 7E
  • Under outbreak since March 24th, 2022
  • 2 total cases

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

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

• Berkshire Care Centre (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since March 12th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 1 staff case
  • 6 unknown cases
• Chateau Park Long Term Care Home (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since March 14th, 2022
  • 3 resident cases
  • 4 staff cases
  • 23 unknown cases
• Sun Parlor Home for Senior Citizens (Leamington) (outbreak ended)
• Riverside Place (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since March 27th, 2022
• Seacliff Manor (Leamington)
  • Under outbreak since March 18th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 3 staff case
  • 3 unknown cases
• Devonshire Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since March 23rd, 2022
  • 3 resident cases (1 new case)
  • 0 staff cases
  • 11 unknown cases
• Seasons Royal Oak Village (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since March 28th, 2022
  • 2 unknown 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.