The active case count increased by three over the weekend and sits at 17 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 Monday, May 31, 2021.
The total number of COVID-19 cases increased by seven and sits at 1,860 across Chatham-Kent.
CK Public Health officials say six people remain hospitalized with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent.
Public health officials announced that three more cases have been resolved, increasing the total to 1,828.
One un-named workplace outbreak has been declared over.
An institutional outbreak at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s medicine unit, which now involves 12 cases, remains active.
Nine of the active cases across Chatham-Kent are linked to close contact, four cases are unknown, two cases have information pending, one case is linked to the institutional outbreak at the hospital and one case is linked to travel.
CK Public Health officials say a total of 230 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.
Since the pandemic began last March, a total of 15 people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.
A total of 111,845 tests for the virus have been completed to date.
Public health officials say 57,684 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, while 54,139 people have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham-Kent.
A total of 57% 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/covid19 or call the CK Public Health COVID-19 intake line at 519-355-1071 ex. 1900.
