The active COVID-19 case count has dropped by two and now sits at 71 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, April 6, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by four and sits at 1,660 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say one person remains hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, four less than on Monday.
Public health officials announced four new recoveries, increasing the total at 1,577.
Institutional outbreaks at Meadow Park Nursing Home in Chatham and Hudson Manor, a retirement home in Tilbury, remain active.
Three un-named workplace outbreaks also remain active.
41 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, 11 are unknown, nine cases are linked to workplace outbreaks in Chatham-Kent, six cases have information pending, three cases are linked to the institutional outbreaks in Chatham-Kent and one case is linked to outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 67 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.
63 of the cases had a mutation detected with “no lineage identified”, while four cases had detected the B.1.1.7 variant of concern, also known as the U.K. variant, public health officials say.
Since the pandemic began last March, a total of 12 people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19, two more deaths than on Monday. More details, here.
A total of 97,076 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 23,574 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date.
Beginning on Saturday, April 3, 2021, Chatham-Kent moved into the ‘Grey-Shutdown’ tier of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open framework, along with the rest of the province.
Provincial officials say the provincewide “emergency brake” will be in place for at least four weeks.
More details, here.
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.
