Active COVID-19 cases at 104, total at 1,542, two outbreaks in C-K

The active COVID-19 case count has increased by one and now sits at 104 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 23, 2021.

The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by 8 and sits at 1,542 across Chatham-Kent.

CK Public Health officials say one person remains hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.

Public health officials announced seven new recoveries, increasing the total at 1,428.

A school outbreak at A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg remains active. Details, here.

An outbreak at an un-named place of worship also remains active.

68 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, 10 cases have information pending, nine are unknown, nine are linked to travel, four cases are linked to the school outbreak, two are linked to outbreaks in community settings and one case is linked to institutional outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent.

The 10th COVID-19 death in Chatham-Kent was announced on Monday. Details, here.

A total of 92,241 tests for the virus have been completed to date.

Public health officials say 16,368 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date.

Beginning on Monday, March 22, 2021, Chatham-Kent moved into the ‘Red-Control’ tier of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open framework.

“Each colour level will be reassessed every two weeks,” local public health officials say.

Public health officials are reminding people to:

Here are the updated details about the ‘Red-Control’ 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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