The active COVID-19 case count has increased by 10 and now sits at 66 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 Friday, April 9, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by 15 and sits at 1,680 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say two people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced five new recoveries, increasing the total at 1,602.
A new school outbreak at Ursuline College Secondary Catholic School in Chatham was announced by public health officials.
The outbreak was officially declared on Thursday, April 8, 2021 and involves two total cases.
St. Clair Catholic District School Board officials say the two cases involve students and one class is currently closed at the school.
The institutional outbreak at Meadow Park Nursing Home in Chatham was declared over on Thursday as well.
The institutional outbreak at Hudson Manor, a retirement home in Tilbury, and three un-named workplace outbreaks, all remain active.
33 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, 14 cases have information pending, nine are unknown, four cases are linked to workplace outbreaks in Chatham-Kent, three cases are linked to the institutional outbreak in Chatham-Kent and two cases are linked to the school outbreak.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 85 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.
80 of the cases had a mutation detected with “no lineage identified”, while five 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.
A total of 99,454 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 26,014 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date, while 24,582 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent.
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.
The Province also declared a state of emergency and issued a ‘stay-at-home’ order for all of Ontario.
The order came into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, April 8, 2021 and is expected to last for 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.
