The active case count dropped by 11 over the weekend and sits at 24 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 Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by three and sits at 1,849 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say eight people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, two less than on Friday.
Public health officials announced that 14 more cases have been resolved, increasing the total to 1,811.
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.
13 of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, six cases are unknown, four cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital and one case is linked to travel.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 224 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 47,309 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 45,110 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/covid19 or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.
