The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit is celebrating after passing the 50,000 mark on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 for COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in Chatham-Kent.
Meanwhile, the active case count continues to drop across the community as well.
Passing the 50,000 mark
“Yesterday, we hit another milestone! 50,000 doses administered by our #CKVaccinationTeam,” public health officials posted on social media on Thursday.
“Special thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen. Let’s keep it going Chatham-Kent!”
As of Wednesday, public health officials say 52,677 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 50,283 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent.
A total of 54% of Chatham-Kent’s population 12+ have received at least one dose.
More details about COVID-19 vaccination in Chatham-Kent can be found, here.
Active case count continues to drop
The active case count has dropped by four and sits at 16 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 27, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by one and sits at 1,851 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say seven people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, one less than on Wednesday.
Public health officials announced that five more cases have been resolved, increasing the total to 1,821.
An institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit, which involves 11 cases, remains active, along with one un-named workplace outbreak.
Six cases are unknown, four are linked to close contact, four cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital, one case is linked to travel and one case has information pending.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 225 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.
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.
