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The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is reporting 65 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region on Sunday.
There were no further deaths Sunday attributable to the virus.
The additional cases bring the total number of area residents who have tested positive for the disease to 15,191. Of those, 14,296 cases are considered resolved and 413 people have died. There are 482 currently active cases.
Twenty-four of the newly confirmed cases were attributable to close contacts of people who had already tested positive, six were connected to community spread, one is outbreak related and 34 cases are still under investigation.
The health unit reports 765 cases to date have tested positive for preliminary or confirmed variants of concern.
There are 14 people with COVID-19 in local hospitals.
Eleven workplaces have active outbreaks: three Leamington farms, one construction business in Windsor, two health-care and social assistance settings in Windsor, one manufacturing facility in Tecumseh, a food and beverage business in Lakeshore and one in Windsor, one repair and maintenance and one retail workplace – both in Windsor.
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There are two school outbreaks – at Amherstburg public elementary school and L’Essor secondary school – though all learning remains remote as per a directive from the Ministry of Education.
An school outbreak is called if two or more COVID-19 cases are confirmed by lab test in students, staff, or visitors within the school in a 14-day period and believed to have been acquired while in school or during a school activity, on school transportation or before/after school care programs.
The health unit makes the decision that an outbreak has ended when at least 14 days have passed from the last outbreak-associated case in the school and anyone with symptoms has been tested and received their test results.
And there is one outbreak at a long-term care facility – Extendicare Southwood Lakes in Windsor.
The number of Windsor and Essex County residents who have received at least one dose of vaccine has risen to 138,141.
For more information go to WEVax.ca.
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