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The local spread of the virus has accelerated. It took only six days for Windsor-Essex to gain its most recent 1,000 new cases.
Before that, it took 10 days for the region to climb from 4,000 cases to 5,000 cases, and 25 days to move from 3,000 to 4,000 cases.
Of the 6,073 local residents who have tested positive since March, 1,186 cases are active and being monitored by public health unit staff.
There are 33 locations in Windsor and Essex County with active outbreaks of the novel coronavirus.
Eight are farms — four in Leamington and four in Kingsville — and one is a manufacturing facility in Tecumseh. Two health care and social assistance businesses in Windsor and Essex also have outbreaks.
The local health unit continues to monitor community outbreaks at Assisted Living Southwestern Ontario, Manor Lodge House, and Victoria Manor.
An outbreak has been declared at St. Mary French Immersion Catholic Elementary School, where at least three members of a single class cohort have tested positive. The class was previously dismissed and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.
An outbreak at L. A. Desmarais Catholic Elementary School is also active.
Windsor Regional Hospital is dealing with two COVID-19 outbreaks at its Met campus — one on the sixth-floor North Unit (6N floor) and one on the fourth-floor North Unit (4N floor). The outbreak at Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare is also ongoing.
Fourteen long-term care and retirement homes have active COVID-19 outbreaks.
tcampbell@postmedia.com
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