WINDSOR, ONT. -- The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting 44 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths on Thursday.

The death toll related to COVID-19 is at 414 people.

Windsor-Essex has had a total of 15,385 confirmed cases of the virus, including 14,536 people who have recovered.

BREAKDOWN OF NEW CASES:

  • 13 cases are community acquired
  • 11 cases are close contacts of confirmed cases
  • 7 cases are outbreak related
  • 13 cases are still under investigation.

There are 19 Windsor-Essex residents with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the hospital and five people are in the ICU.

The health unit website says 819 preliminary or confirmed Variant of Concern (VOC) cases have been identified.

OUTBREAKS IN THE REGION:

  • 13 workplaces are in COVID-19 outbreak
  • 2 community outbreak
  • 1 long-term care or retirement home is in COVID-19 outbreak
  • 1 school is in outbreak.

WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY RESIDENT VACCINATED:

  • 148,044 WEC residents have received at least one dose of a vaccine
  • 134,295 WEC residents have received only 1 dose of a vaccine
  • 13,749 WEC residents have received both doses of a vaccine
  • A total of 161,793 doses have been administered to WEC residents.

WECHU did not do a YouTube livestream update on Thursday.

More coming.