Additional outbreak declared at Windsor Regional Hospital s Met campus
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit said that five people, all patients, have tested positive on the hospital s 6N floor.
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Posted: Dec 20, 2020 2:25 PM ET | Last Updated: December 20, 2020
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit said that five people, all patients, have tested positive on the hospital s 6N floor.(Katerina Georgieva/CBC)
Officials also announced the region s 95th death due to COVID-19 a woman in her 60s.
In his weekly epidemiological summary, Ahmed said the region has the third-highest overall infection rate, in the province, behind Peel Region and Toronto.
Meanwhile, Premier Doug Ford is holding an emergency meeting with hospital officials Friday after the Ontario Hospital Association sounded the alarm over strained capacity.
WECHU has ongoing contact with its provincial counterpart, and the unit has provided data as well as some recommendations to the province, Ahmed said. We re hoping that at the end of all this some of those recommendations be implemented in Windsor and as well more broadly, he said, declining to say what those recommendations are.