CK Public Health officials announced no new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
In fact, a false positive case was confirmed, lowering the total number of positive cases in Chatham-Kent to 336.
The total number of recoveries has increased by seven and now sits at 257.
There are 77 active cases of the virus across the community.
A total of 44 of the active cases are related to close contact, 10 are related to travel, nine are pending, seven are related to a congregate setting, five are unknown and two are related to a workplace outbreak in Chatham-Kent.
Four people are hospitalized, CK Public Health officials say.
There are two active workplace outbreaks in Chatham-Kent.
There have been zero outbreaks at long-term care and retirement homes in Chatham-Kent.
To date, two people have died from COVID-19.
In total, 18,147 COVID-19 tests have been administered as of Thursday, August 13, 2020.
The CK Public Health Unit updates their ‘current situation’ page Monday to Friday by 2:30 p.m.
See the latest information and data, here.
For more information about COVID-19, residents are asked to visit
http://www.ckpublichealth.com/covid19Â or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.
Visit Ontario’s website, www.Ontario.ca/coronavirus to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Details, here.
