The active case count has dropped by one 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 Friday, May 21, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases remains the same and sits at 1,846 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say 10 people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced that one more case have been resolved, increasing the total at 1,797.
An institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit, which involves nine cases, remains active, along with one un-named workplace outbreak.
17 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, six cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital, six cases are unknown, three cases have information pending, one case is linked to travel, one case is linked to workplace outbreaks and one case is linked to outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 221 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.
Since the pandemic began last March, a total of 14 people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.
A total of 110,360 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 45,487 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 43,421 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.
The Province also released details about their reopening plan on Thursday, May 20, 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/covid19Â or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.
