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A Windsor long-term care home hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave had its outbreak rescinded on Friday after 177 staff and residents contracted the disease and nearly two dozen died.
During an outbreak that lasted 51 days, Banwell Gardens Care Centre recorded COVID-19 cases among 115 residents and 62 workers, according to the facility’s executive director. Twenty-three of the residents who tested positive succumbed to complications brought on by the disease.
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“The home has regular calls with public health and has received support from a number of our health system partners as we navigated this outbreak,” said Sara Fox in an email to the Star.
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported 142 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total infection count for the region nearer to 10,000.
To date, 9,815 local residents have tested positive for the virus in a population of roughly 400,000.
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There are currently 2,728 active cases of COVID-19 in the region, with 99 in hospital and 17 of them in ICU.
No additional COVID-19 deaths were reported on Monday, though the deaths of eight people were announced over the weekend.
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported an additional 199 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the region’s infection count above 9,000.
It took only five days for the region to gain its most recent 1,000 cases, with a total of 9,045 people testing positive since the pandemic began.
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Before that, it took six days for the region to move from 6,000 cases to 7,000, and six more days after that to reach 8,000.
The health unit also reported the deaths of three more people on Thursday. A woman in her 60s and a woman in her 80s who lived in long-term care homes, as well as a man in his 90s who lived in the general community, have lost their lives to COVID-19.
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The COVID-19 death toll at The Village at St. Clair grew to 34 during the first days of 2021, with nine of the deaths being reported from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4.
On Tuesday, Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare provided updated numbers on the novel coronavirus situation at the south Windsor long-term care facility which is currently enduring the largest and deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at any one location in the region thus far.
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To date, there have been 245 cases of COVID-19 at The Village at St. Clair 140 residents and 105 employees.
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Six of the new cases are being attributed to community spread, 13 are close contacts of confirmed cases, and 32 are related to outbreaks. The transmission sources for the remaining 199 cases are still under investigation by public health unit staff.
There are currently 1,305 active cases of COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex.
If residents fail to follow provincial rules prohibiting social gatherings over the holidays, Ahmed said he is “absolutely” anticipating an even higher jump in new infections.
“I don’t know what other measures that I can put forward, or the province can put forward, to contain it all of these measures are completely and entirely dependent on everyone’s behaviour.