The active COVID-19 case count has increased by nine and now sits at 34 across Chatham-Kent.
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 Tuesday, March 9, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by nine and sits at 1,383 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say two people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced zero new recoveries, leaving the total at 1,340.
Two institutional outbreaks remain active, 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.
“We are confident we are able to get this outbreak under control, as we have put proper measures in place and continue to work closely with CK Public Health,” hospital officials said in a press release on Monday.
“We thank them for their ongoing support as we work together to keep our patients and families safe.”
15 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are are linked to close contact, nine are unknown, seven 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 10,027 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.
