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Eleven more people have lost their lives to COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex as the region’s infection count exceeded 10,000.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit on Wednesday reported the deaths of nine long-term care and retirement home residents: a man in his 60s, four women and one man in their 80s, and two women and one man in their 90s.
A woman in her 50s and a man in his 70s who lived in the general community have also died.
To date, 237 local residents have died as a result of the virus.
The health unit also reported 288 new cases of COVID-19. This would be the region’s highest-ever single-day case increase if not for a reporting error by the lab that processed the test results.
According to medical officer of health Dr. Wajid Ahmed, some of the new infections reported on Wednesday were previously misreported by the lab and have since been corrected. Those were added to Wednesday’s case count.
In the past, when similar reporting mistakes have happened, the health unit has updated the data on its website to accurately reflect when the tests actually came back positive from the lab.
Since March, 10,278 people in Windsor and Essex County have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, 2,812 cases are currently active, with 99 people in hospital and 18 in intensive care.
There are 45 active outbreaks at locations across the region.
More to come.
tcampbell@postmedia.com
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