WINDSOR, ONT. -- The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting 439 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex, including 12 new cases and three more deaths.
The stats are according to data released on Friday morning. There are 58 recovered cases.
The death toll in Windsor-Essex has reached 21. Fourteen deaths have been with people in long-term care homes.The latest deaths were a man and woman in their 80s and a woman in her 90s.
Windsor-Essex medical officer of health Dr. Wajid Ahmed says data from local test results show the shift in the increase in cases in LTC compared to the community.
“We created this particular epi curve to see how these cases are now shifting from the community to the long-term care homes,” says Ahmed.
There are seven outbreaks at LTC homes in Windsor-Essex.
Ahmed says there has been talk of moving positive COVID-19 residents out of the LTC homes and into the new field hospital at St. Clair College. Hospital officals confirmed this Friday morning.
Ahmed says if you have a love one impacted by this, you will be approached about the transfer.“There has to be a number of considerations that have to happen before the moves happen,” says Ahmed.
The health unit released more local statistics on Friday, including a breakdown of where the cases are by municipality.
Windsor had the most cases at 63 per cent, and Kingville was second at 16 per cent. Lakeshore, Amherstburg, LaSalle and Tecumseh were at four per cent. Leamington was at three per cent, while Essex had just two per cent of the cases.
Overall, 3,282 people have been tested in Windsor-Essex, and 568 tests are pending.
In Chatham-Kent, 25 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported
Correction:
Note: The WECHU corrected the distribution of COVID-19 cases by municipality to show that Lakeshore made up four per cent of cases, not 20 per cent as previously reported. This is due to at the time of investigation, addresses pertaining to a long-term care home were close to the border of Kingsville and Lakeshore without a municipality identified (e.g., Woodslee). As a result a determination was made to allocate these cases to the nearest possible municipality which was identified as Lakeshore instead of Kingsville at the time.
Kingsville is now listed as having the second largest number of cases.
