There are no new COVID-19 cases across Chatham-Kent and the active case count has dropped by two and sits at 36.
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 Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases remains unchanged 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 two new recoveries, increasing the total at 1,678.
A school outbreak at A.A. Wright Public School was declared over on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, public health officials announced on Wednesday.
The outbreak at the Wallaceburg elementary school involved two total cases and had been first declared on April 10, 2021.
A school outbreak at Blenheim District High School, along with two un-named workplace outbreaks, remain active.
26 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, three are unknown, two cases are linked to school outbreaks, two cases are linked to outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent, one case has information pending, one case is linked to workplace outbreaks and one case is linked to travel.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 122 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.
Public health officials say 30,434 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date, while 28,944 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent.
More details about COVID-19 vaccination in Chatham-Kent can be found, here.
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.
