The active case count has increased by three and sits at 35 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 Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by five and sits at 1,816 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say nine people are hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, three more than on Tuesday.
Public health officials announced that two more cases have been resolved, increasing the total at 1,768.
A institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit was announced by public health officials on Wednesday and was first declared on Tuesday.
For more details from the hospital, click here.
One un-named workplace outbreak also remains active.
14 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, 10 cases are unknown, four are linked to travel, three cases are linked to workplace outbreaks, two cases have information pending and two cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 194 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 107,033 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 39,105 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 37,447 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.
