Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit officials updated the ‘current status’ page of their website on Friday, December 3, 2021.
The active COVID-19 case count rose to 109, nine more than on Thursday.
Six people with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent are hospitalized.
The total number of COVID-19 cases is 3,027 across Chatham-Kent, 15 more than on Thursday.
A total of 2,894 cases have been resolved.
A total of 60 active cases are linked to close contact, 18 cases have information pending, 17 cases are unknown and 13 cases are outbreak related.
Public health officials say eight outbreaks are active across Chatham-Kent:
– An outbreak at an un-named manufacturing workplace, declared on December 2, 2021, involves three cases.
– An outbreak at St. Anne Catholic School in Blenheim, declared on December 2, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at Winston Churchill Public School in Chatham, declared on December 2, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at Dresden Area Central School, declared on November 30, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at an un-named place of worship, declared on November 26, 2021, involves six cases.
– An outbreak at an un-named manufacturing workplace, declared on November 25, 2021, involves three cases.
– An outbreak at Elementary School Catholic Saint-Francis in Tilbury, declared on November 23, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at an un-named place of worship, declared on November 15, 2021, involves 13 cases.
CK Public Health officials say the Delta variant continues to be the predominant circulating variant of concern in Chatham-Kent and Ontario.
“The majority of current cases among people living in CK have initial mutation screening results in line with the Delta variant,” public health officials added.
Public health officials say a total of 158,156 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, 80,989 people 12+ have received at least one dose and 77,659 people 12+ have received two doses.
Since the pandemic began in March of 2020, a total of 24 Chatham-Kent residents have died from COVID-19.
More details about COVID-19 in Chatham-Kent can be found, here.
