Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Tuesday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 79 new high risk cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Tuesday. 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 42,766 on Monday, April 25th to 42,848 on Tuesday, April 26th.

There are 361 high-risk cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 11 active high-risk cases since yesterday).

Vaccinations

Here’s the Health Unit’s COVID-19 vaccination update for today (residents of Windsor-Essex).

• 357,035 people locally have received one dose of a vaccine (+32 since yesterday)
• 345,330 people locally have received a 2nd dose of a vaccine (+37 since yesterday)
• 195,374 people locally have received a 3rd dose of a vaccine (+80 since yesterday)
• 14,124 people locally have received a 4th dose of a vaccine (+746 since yesterday)

Vaccination Percentages

• 86.5 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)
• 83.7 per cent of Windsor-Essex residents (ages 5+) are fully vaccinated (increase of 0.1 per cent since yesterday)
• 51.5 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

The Health Unit announced one additional death from COVID-19 bringing the local death toll to 608. They say a woman in her 90s from the community passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 74 hospitalizations today (increase of 16), and 4 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
  • 47 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19 (decrease of 9)
    • 39 fully vaccinated (decrease of 8)
    • 0 partially vaccinated
    • 8 unvaccinated (decrease of 1)

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

• • 3 total in the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19
    • 3 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:
    • 4 fully vaccinated
    • 1 unvaccinated
  • Not being primarily treated for COVID-19, and asymptomatic:
    • 1 fully vaccinated
    • 0 unvaccinated
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare
  • 5 cases on March 24th
  • Note: Hotel Dieu has not released updated data since March 24th, 2022.

Workplace Outbreaks/Community Outbreaks

• Agriculture
  • 1 outbreak in Kingsville
• Congregate setting
  • 4 outbreaks in Windsor
  • 1 outbreaks in LaSalle (1 less outbreak)
  • 2 outbreaks in Amherstburg

Hospital Outbreaks

• Erie Shores Healthcare – 2C
  • Under outbreak since April 8th, 2022
  • 2 total cases
• Erie Shores Healthcare – 2N
  • Under outbreak since April 8th, 2022
  • 2 total cases
• Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare – 3 South A/CC7
  • Under outbreak since April 19th, 2022
  • 1 total case
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan – 5N
  • Under outbreak since April 21st, 2022
  • 5 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – 8E (outbreak ended)
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan – 6N (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since April 25th, 2022
  • 4 total cases

Long-term Care / Retirement Home Outbreaks

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

• Chateau Park Long Term Care Home (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since March 14th, 2022
  • 7 resident cases
  • 6 staff cases
  • 35 unknown cases (1 new case)
• The Village at St. Clair (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since March 29th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 13 staff cases (2 new cases)
  • 16 unknown cases (1 new case)
• Huron Lodge (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since April 2nd, 2022
  • 5 resident cases
  • 11 staff cases
  • 11 unknown cases
• Extendicare Tecumseh
  • Under outbreak since April 4th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 10 staff cases (2 new cases)
  • 6 unknown cases
• Devonshire Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since March 23rd, 2022
  • 5 resident cases
  • 3 staff cases
  • 36 unknown cases
• Chartwell Royal Marquis Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since March 31st, 2022
  • 3 resident cases
  • 4 staff cases
  • 6 unknown cases
• Seasons Retirement Communities – Amherstburg
  • Under outbreak since April 11th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 8 unknown cases
• Chartwell Oak Park LaSalle Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since April 12th, 2022
  • 5 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 2 unknown cases
• Amica Riverside (Windsor) (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since April 13th, 2022
  • 3 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 1 unknown case
• Seasons Royal Oak Village (LaSalle)
  • Under outbreak since April 14th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 2 unknown cases
• Chartwell Kingsville Retirement Residence (Kingsville)
  • Under outbreak since April 18th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 1 staff case
  • 2 unknown cases
• Harrowood Seniors Community
  • Under outbreak since April 21st, 2022
  • 1 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 6 unknown cases
• Bruce Villa Manor (Windsor) (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since April 25th, 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.