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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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.
3 more COVID-19 deaths in Windsor-Essex: health unit
Three more Windsor-Essex residents have died of COVID-19, the local health unit reported Thursday, and the region is also seeing a triple-digit daily increase in COVID-19 cases once again.
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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported 191 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, along with three deaths.(Sanjay Maru/CBC)
There are 105 residents of long-term care and retirement homes with COVID-19, along with 62 staff members.
That includes an outbreak at The Village at St. Clair where one resident has died as a result of the disease and 54 others have been infected, along with 34 staff members, according to an update on the home s website.
There are also 21 cases of COVID-19, with more results pending, across three outbreaks on farms, Ahmed said.
Snapshot of COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex
There are 890 active cases in Windsor-Essex and 91 people have died since the pandemic began.
Of the new cases announced Wednesday, 27 are connected to outbreaks, five are contacts of confirmed cases, two were community acquired and 79 are under investigation.
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The transmission sources for the remaining 79 new cases are still under investigation by public health unit staff.
Windsor-Essex has 890 active cases of COVID-19, with 57 positive cases in hospital and 11 of those in intensive care. Windsor hospitals have an additional 79 patients with suspected cases of COVID-19 who are still awaiting their test results.
Approximately 10 per cent of people who contract COVID-19 locally spend at least one day in hospital, Ahmed said. Between two and three per cent of cases will die.
“It’s unfortunate that (cases) really increased,” Ahmed said. “I believed maybe our good numbers for some time in September and October may have given a false sense of security, and the impression to the community that they are not at risk. It resulted in transmission.”