Windsor, Ont. — The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting 558 new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths on Thursday.
WECHU says due to the recent surge in Omicron cases and changes in eligibility for testing, testing capacity is limited and case, contact, and outbreak management has been modified to focus on high-risk settings. As a result, the health unit says case counts in the dashboard are an underestimate of the true number of individuals with COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex and may impact data completeness.
The death toll related to COVID-19 in the region is at 497 people.
Windsor-Essex has had a total of 27,733 confirmed cases of the virus, including 24,710 people who have recovered.
HOSPITALIZATIONS
WECHU reports 49 COVID cases in the region are currently hospitalized.
Windsor Regional Hospital is reporting 44 people with COVID in hospital, 34 of them are being primarily treated for the virus. Out of those patients, 18 are vaccinated, one is partially vaccinated and 15 are unvaccinated. There are six COVID patients in the ICU - five are unvaccinated and one is fully vaccinated.
According to the Erie Shores Healthcare website, there are three unvaccinated COVID patients and two fully/partially vaccinated patients in the Leamington hospital.
OUTBREAKS IN WINDSOR-ESSEX
- 1 Workplace
- 10 Community Outbreaks
- 4 Schools or Daycares
- 8 Long-Term Care or Retirement Homes
WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY RESIDENTS VACCINATED
- 359,563 WEC residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine
- 25,075 WEC residents have only received 1 dose of a vaccine
- 334,488 WEC residents have received both doses of a vaccine
- 136,926 WEC residents have received a 3rd dose/booster shot of a vaccine. Please note: Third doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine are available for prioritized populations. Further information is available at https://www.wechu.org/cv/clinics#third-dose.
- A total of 830,977 doses have been administered to WEC residents
- 87.1% of WEC residents 5+ have received at least 1 dose
- 81.0% of WEC residents 5+ are fully vaccinated.
