239 New COVID-19 Cases Reported in Windsor-Essex Over Three Days

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Windsor, Ontario. –

Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting 239 new COVID-19 cases and no additional deaths for three days.

WECHU does not report case counts over the weekend, so recent statistics are for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. There were 71 new cases on Saturday, 86 new cases on Sunday, and 82 new cases on Monday.

Acting Medical Health Officer Dr. Shanker Nesathurai says the last time the region had more than 86 new cases in a single day was on September 3, when there were 91 new cases.

The death toll related to COVID-19 in the region is 471 people.

Windsor Regional Hospital reports that there are 18 people with COVID in the hospital: 10 are not vaccinated and eight are fully vaccinated. There are three unvaccinated patients and three fully vaccinated COVID patients in the WRH ICU.

According to the Erie Shores Healthcare website, as of November 26, there were two unvaccinated COVID patients at the Leamington hospital.

Windsor-Essex has had a total of 21,742 confirmed cases of the virus, including 20,773 people who have recovered.

The health unit says 498 cases are currently active, but due to the change in testing practice in public health laboratories, genomic sequencing data for variants is delayed.

BREAKDOWN OF NEW CASES

  • 97 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases
  • 58 cases are acquired in the community
  • 28 cases are related to outbreaks
  • 56 cases are still under investigation

SPROUTS IN WINDSOR-ESSEX

  • 9 outbreaks in the workplace
  • 2 outbreaks of long-term care or nursing homes
  • 8 community outbreaks
  • 7 school shoots
  • 1 hospital outbreak.

WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY RESIDENTS VACCINATED

  • 333,044 WEC residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine
  • 316,994 WEC residents have received both doses of a vaccine
  • 22,143 WEC residents have received a third dose / booster shot of a vaccine. Please note: Third doses of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine are available for prioritized populations. More information is available at https://www.wechu.org/cv/clinics#third-dose.
  • A total of 672,181 doses have been administered to WEC residents
  • 80.7% of WEC 5+ residents have received at least 1 dose
  • 76.8% of WEC 5+ residents are fully vaccinated.

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Reference-windsor.ctvnews.ca

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