The active COVID-19 case count has increased by seven over the weekend and now sits at 128 across Chatham-Kent.
The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit has updated their ‘current situation’ page, which provides a summary of COVID-19 cases and testing in Chatham-Kent, on Monday, January 11, 2021.
Public health officials announced 55 more recoveries, bringing the total to 775.
The total number of cases has increased by 63 to 907.
Overall, there are 13 active COVID-19 outbreaks across the community:
– Four institutional outbreaks: Fairfield Park in Wallaceburg and Riverview Gardens, Copper Terrace and Village on the Thames in Chatham.
– Eight un-named workplace outbreaks.
– One congregate living outbreak.
84 of the active cases are linked to close contact, 21 are unknown, 10 cases have information pending, eight are linked to workplace outbreaks in Chatham-Kent, two cases are linked to institutional outbreaks in Chatham-Kent, two are linked to institutional outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent and one case is linked to the congregate living outbreak.
CK Public Health officials say three people from Chatham-Kent remain hospitalized with COVID-19.
Since the pandemic began in March, three people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.
A total of 59,271 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
As of 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, December 26, 2020, Chatham-Kent joined a province-wide shutdown, which will be in effect for a period of 28 days.
More details about the province-wide shutdown can be found, here.
Public health officials are encouraging people to continue following these public health measures:
To view the full ‘current situation’ page from CK Public Health, click 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.
