The active case count has increased by one and sits at 36 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 Thursday, May 13, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by three and sits at 1,819 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say nine people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced that two more cases have been resolved, increasing the total at 1,770.
A institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit and one un-named workplace outbreak remain active.
13 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, 10 cases are unknown, five are linked to travel, four cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital, three cases are linked to workplace outbreaks and one case has information pending.
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 108,670 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 40,321 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 38,636 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.
The Province has extended the ‘stay-at-home’ order for all of Ontario until at least June 2, 2021.
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.
