Dr. Wajid Ahmed, medical officer of health with the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, said it was only a "matter of time" before the one of the more contagious variants of the virus, was discovered in the region.
A Windsor, Ont., hospital is taking the lead on managing a long-term care home weathering a deadly COVID-19 outbreak that has sickened more than 150 people.
And each one needs to be tracked down it’s a lot of work. “Every one of our cases has maybe two to three contacts per case,” Windsor-Essex County Health Unit CEO Theresa Marentette said. The province sent reinforcements to Windsor who started working the first week of December. “We have 133 people dedicated to COVID and about 51 of those are specifically for case management and now we have 23 new people for contact management,” Marentette said. The health unit admits COVID-19 positive patients sometimes have to wait up to two days to speak to someone. Windsor Regional Hospital is helping by assigning staff to call patients who test positive with their results as soon as they come in.
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