Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit officials updated the ‘current status’ page of their website on Tuesday, December 28, 2021.
The active COVID-19 case count jumped to 288, a total of 18 more than on Monday.
A total of 14 people with COVID-19 from Chatham-Kent are hospitalized, four more than on Monday.
The total number of COVID-19 cases is 3,645 across Chatham-Kent, 43 more than on Monday.
A total of 3,330 cases have been resolved.
A total of 199 of the active cases have information pending, 44 are linked to close contact, 33 cases are unknown and 12 cases are outbreak related.
Public health officials say eight outbreaks are active across Chatham-Kent:
– An outbreak at Naahii Ridge Public School in Ridgetown, declared on December 21, 2021, involves four cases.
– An outbreak at Riverview gardens in Chatham, declared on December 21, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at St. Angela Merici Catholic School in Chatham, declared on December 20, 2021, involves five cases.
– An outbreak at Good Shepherd Catholic School in Thamesville, declared on December 17, 2021, involves two cases.
– An outbreak at Holy Family Catholic School in Wallaceburg, declared on December 15, 2021, involves four cases.
– An outbreak at St. Phillipe in Grand Pointe, declared on December 13, 2021, involves five cases.
– An outbreak at Gregory Drive Public School in Chatham, declared on December 11, 2021, involves five cases.
– An outbreak at an un-named manufacturing workplace, declared on December 2, 2021, involves 18 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 175,126 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date, 83,218 people 5+ have received at least one dose and 78,574 people 5+ have received two doses.
Since the pandemic began in March of 2020, a total of 27 Chatham-Kent residents have died from COVID-19.
The latest data from the Province of Ontario can be found, here.
More details about COVID-19 in Chatham-Kent can be found, here.
