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Article content The Chatham-Kent public health unit reported eight new cases and no resolved cases Monday as active cases rose to 14. There were only six active in the previous update Friday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Active COVID-19 cases rising in Chatham-Kent Back to video “We have had a slight increase in cases over the past few days,” Chatham-Kent public health unit spokesperson Jeff Moco said. “(The public health unit) is followi...

More local residents will be getting their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today. A mobile clinic, which is fully booked up, is being held at Wallaceburg’s Memorial Arena. Public Health spokesman Jeff Moco says the mobile clinics run on the same model as the mass vaccination clinic at the Bradley Centre. “The biggest difference that people might see is just that it’s a different physical location, but how people flow through the system…it should be 25-30 minutes at the most.” For t...

Article content Chatham-Kent’s medical officer of still wants people to get the first COVID-19 vaccine offered to them despite a national advisory body saying some vaccines are preferable to others. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization said this week mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna are “preferred” to the viral vector vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson because of the very rare chance of blood clots. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try re...

Chatham-Kents top doc encourages people to get first vaccine offered Chatham-Kent’s top doctor still wants people to get the first COVID-19 vaccine offered to them despite a national advisory body saying some vaccines are preferable to others. Author of the article: Mark Malone Publishing date: May 05, 2021  •  May 5, 2021  •  3 minute read  •  This handout file illustration image obtained Feb. 27, 2020 courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and created...

Article content Ontario’s temporary foreign workers can receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine when they arrive in Canada at Toronto Pearson International Airport. More than 200 workers were given the jab during a successful pilot test April 10, said Christa Roettele, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Migrant workers being offered vaccine at Toronto airport before arri...

Article content Ontario’s temporary foreign workers can now receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine when they arrive in Canada at Toronto Pearson International Airport. More than 200 workers were jabbed during a successful pilot test April 10, said Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs spokesperson Christa Roettele. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Migrant workers can be vaccinated before arriving in Chatham-Kent Back to video A cli...

Article content Add Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff to the chorus of voices hoping the current COVID-19 stay-at-home order is the last in Ontario. The province’s latest emergency order during the pandemic took effect April 8 and requires everyone to stay at home as much as possible while limiting the operations of non-essential retail stores and restricting big-box stores to selling “essential” items. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Canniff...

Article content Add Chatham-Kent Mayor Darrin Canniff to the chorus of voices hoping the current COVID-19 stay-at-home order is the last in Ontario. The province’s latest emergency order during the pandemic took effect Thursday and requires everyone to stay at home as much as possible while limiting the operations of non-essential retail stores and restricting big-box stores to selling “essential” items. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Cannif...

COVID-19 outbreak declared at Chatham-Kent place of worship A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at a Chatham-Kent place of worship, but the public health unit is not identifying the facility for privacy reasons. Author of the article: Mark Malone Publishing date: Mar 17, 2021  •  3 days ago  •  2 minute read  •  This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, orange, em...

Article content The COVID-19 vaccine is now available in Chatham-Kent to all residents who’ll be at least 75 years old this year and all health-care workers. The Chatham-Kent public health unit announced Wednesday people in those groups can start booking appointments. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. COVID-19 vaccine rollout keeps expanding in Chatham-Kent Back to video Residents born in 1946 or earlier with a last name starting from A to M can c...