The Municipality of Chatham-Kent has eclipsed the 30,000 mark for COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the community.
“We reached another milestone as we administered our 30,000th dose this afternoon at the Bradley Centre COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic,” CK Public Health officials posted on social media on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.
“Thanks to all who have come through our doors to make this happen. If we haven’t had a chance to see you yet, we hope we can soon.”
More details about COVID-19 vaccination in Chatham-Kent can be found, here.
The active COVID-19 case count remained unchanged at 38 on Tuesday as well.
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 20, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by one and sits at 1,727 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say one person remains hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced one new recovery, increasing the total at 1,676.
School outbreaks at A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg and at Blenheim District High School, along with two un-named workplace outbreaks, remain active.
24 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, five cases have information pending, three are unknown, two cases are linked to school outbreaks, two cases are linked to outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent, one case is linked to workplace outbreaks and one case is linked to travel.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 116 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.
Since the pandemic began last March, a total of 13 people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.
A total of 101,694 tests for the virus have been completed 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.
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 six weeks, after Provincial officials announced on Friday they were extending it for an additional two 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/covid19Â or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.
