Health Unit COVID-19 Cases & Outbreaks Update For Friday

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The Windsor Essex County Health Unit announced 149 new high risk cases of COVID-19 in Windsor and Essex County on Friday. 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 42,303 on Thursday, April 21st to 42,455 on Friday, April 22nd.

There are 409 high-risk cases of COVID-19 currently active in Windsor-Essex (increase of 23 active high-risk cases since yesterday).

Vaccinations

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

• 356,907 people locally have received one dose of a vaccine (+37 since yesterday)
• 345,180 people locally have received a 2nd dose of a vaccine (+75 since yesterday)
• 195,105 people locally have received a 3rd dose of a vaccine (+8 since yesterday)
• 12,124 people locally have received a 4th dose of a vaccine (+926 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)
• 51.4 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 three additional deaths from COVID-19 bringing the local death to 607. They say 2 men and 1 woman in their 80s from long-term care or retirement homes passed away.

Hospitalizations

The Health Unit lists 62 hospitalizations today (increase of 4), and 2 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
  • 48 total in hospital, including the ICU, with confirmed COVID-19
    • 35 fully vaccinated
    • 1 partially vaccinated
    • 12 unvaccinated

• • • 30 of those in hospital, including the ICU, are being treated for COVID-19
      
      • 22 fully vaccinated
        
      • 1 partially vaccinated
        
      • 7 unvaccinated
        

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

• • • 1 of those in the ICU are being treated for COVID-19
      
      • 1 fully vaccinated
        
      • 0 partially vaccinated
        
      • 0 unvaccinated
        
• Erie Shores hospital in Leamington
  • Being primarily treated for COVID-19:
    • 4 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 1 unvaccinated
  • Not being primarily treated for COVID-19, and asymptomatic:
    • 1 fully vaccinated (decrease of 1)
    • 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
  • 2 outbreaks in LaSalle
  • 1 outbreak in Amherstburg
• Correctional facility
  • 1 outbreak in Tecumseh (outbreak ended)

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 (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since April 21st, 2022
  • 6 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Metropolitan – 7N
  • Under outbreak since April 4th, 2022
  • 7 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – 4M
  • Under outbreak since April 6th, 2022
  • 11 total cases
• Windsor Regional Hospital – Ouellette – 8E
  • Under outbreak since April 14th, 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
  • 33 unknown cases
• The Village at St. Clair (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since March 29th, 2022
  • 2 resident case (1 new case)
  • 10 staff cases
  • 11 unknown cases
• Huron Lodge (Windsor)
  • Under outbreak since April 2nd, 2022
  • 4 resident cases (1 new case)
  • 10 staff cases (1 new case)
  • 7 unknown cases (1 new case)
• Extendicare Tecumseh
  • Under outbreak since April 4th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 7 staff cases (1 new case)
  • 6 unknown cases
    
• Franklin Gardens Long-Term Care Home (Leamington) (outbreak ended)
• Devonshire Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since March 23rd, 2022
  • 5 resident cases
  • 3 staff cases
  • 35 unknown cases
• Chartwell Royal Marquis Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since March 31st, 2022
  • 3 resident cases
  • 4 staff cases
  • 4 unknown cases
• Leamington Mennonite Home
  • Under outbreak since April 4th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 13 unknown cases
• Seasons Retirement Communities – Amherstburg
  • Under outbreak since April 11th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 7 unknown cases (4 new cases)
• Chartwell Oak Park LaSalle Retirement Residence
  • Under outbreak since April 12th, 2022
  • 5 resident cases
  • 0 staff cases
  • 1 unknown cases
• Seasons Royal Oak Village (LaSalle)
  • Under outbreak since April 14th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases (1 new case)
  • 0 staff cases
  • 2 unknown cases
• Chartwell Kingsville Retirement Residence (Kingsville) (new outbreak)
  • Under outbreak since April 18th, 2022
  • 2 resident cases (1 new case)
  • 1 staff case (1 new case)
  • 2 unknown cases (2 new 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.