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Health unit reports 8 new cases, says residents should continue booking vaccinations through local system
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit announced eight new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the first time a single-digit case count has been seen since early November.
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Posted: Mar 15, 2021 12:52 PM ET | Last Updated: March 15
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting eight new COVID-19 cases and one additional death on Monday.(Guy Quenneville/CBC)
WINDSOR, ONT. Cars were lined up to get screened before appointments early Monday morning at the region’s second targeted COVID-19 vaccination clinic. Lynda Haig said she was, “glad to get it off her mind.” She was accompanying her mom to the newly opened clinic at the Nature Fresh Farm Complex in Leamington for seniors 80 and older. “It’s very important so you don’t spread any germs to your relatives, people in the stores you go into, said Bob McKee who received a dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Moyra Cook displayed her relief with a fist pump after her husband Alfred received his shot.
Author of the article: Anne Jarvis
Publishing date: Mar 05, 2021 • March 5, 2021 • 4 minute read • Take whatever brand of vaccine you re offered, health authorities urge. Shown here, Dr. Nick Krayacich, with the Heron Terrace long-term care home, receives one of the first locally available doses of COVID-19 vaccine at the St. Clair College SportsPlex on Dec. 22, 2020. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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Which COVID-19 vaccine should you get?
“Whatever you can get your hands on,” said Windsor-Essex Medical Officer of Health Dr. Wajid Ahmed.
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Publishing date: Mar 03, 2021 • March 3, 2021 • 4 minute read • Beginning of the end? Theresa Marentette, CEO of the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, leads a media tour of the vaccination clinic set up at the WFCU Centre in Windsor on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Local inoculations are expected to ramp up fast and soon. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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“The beginning of the end” was how Essex County Warden Gary McNamara hopefully described on Wednesday the sprawling new vaccination clinic carved out of the community rinks at the WFCU Centre.
The clinic started Monday, vaccinating people age 80 and up at a rate of six every 15 minutes, or 169 per day. But that number rises to nine every 15 minutes starting Thursday and on Monday a similar centre opens at the Nature Fresh Farms Recreation Centre in Leamington, with plans for additional locations in the city and county as the flow of vaccine swells.