Active COVID-19 case count increases to 18 in Chatham-Kent

The Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit officials updated their ‘current status’ page of their website on Friday, August 13, 2021.

Public health officials say a total of 132,901 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, 71,070 people 12+ have received at least one dose and 64,026 people 12+ have received two doses.

The active COVID-19 case count has increased to 18.

The total number of COVID-19 cases is 1,941 across Chatham-Kent.

A total of 1,906 cases have been resolved.

A community outbreak at Community Living Chatham-Kent was declared over earlier this week.

A total of nine cases are linked to close contact, five cases have information pending, two cases are unknown and two cases are linked to travel.

CK Public Health officials say a total of 272 Chatham-Kent residents have had COVID-19 with a variant of concern or related mutation.

A total of 123,731 tests for the virus have been completed to date.

Since the pandemic began last March, a total of 17 people from Chatham-Kent have died from COVID-19.

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