Active COVID-19 case count jumps to 25 in C-K, two new outbreaks at the hospital

The active COVID-19 case count increased by 13 over the weekend and now sits at 25.

The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit updated their ‘current situation’ page, which provides a summary of COVID-19 cases and testing in Chatham-Kent, on Monday, March 8, 2021.

The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by 18 and sits at 1,374 across Chatham-Kent.

CK Public Health officials say two people are hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, one more than on Friday.

Public health officials announced five more recoveries, increasing the total to 1,340.

Two new institutional outbreaks have been declared, both at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

An outbreak was declared on Sunday, March 7, 2021 in the Dialysis unit in Chatham and involves two total cases.

An outbreak was also declared on Sunday in the Lab Services unit of the hospital in Chatham and involves three total cases.

11 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are are linked to close contact, seven are unknown, four cases have information pending, two cases are linked to institutional outbreaks in Chatham-Kent and one case is linked to institutional outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent.

Since the pandemic began in March, nine people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.

A total of 86,179 tests for the virus have been completed to date.

Public health officials say 9,997 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date.

Beginning on Monday, March 1, 2021, Chatham-Kent moved into the ‘Orange-Restrict’ tier of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open framework.

“Each colour level will be reassessed every two weeks,” CK Public Health officials say.

Public health officials are reminding people to:

Here is more details about the ‘Orange-Restrict’ tier:

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/covid19 or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.

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