The active case count has dropped by two and sits at 14 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 28, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by two and sits at 1,853 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say six people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent, one less than on Thursday.
Public health officials announced that four more cases have been resolved, increasing the total to 1,825.
One un-named workplace outbreak has been declared over.
An institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit, which involves 11 cases, remains active.
Five cases are unknown, four of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, two cases are linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital, one case is linked to travel one case is linked to outbreaks outside of Chatham-Kent and one case has information pending.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 226 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 1101,845 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 54,358 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 51,545 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent.
A total of 55% 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.
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.
