Four new outbreaks of COVID-19 have been declared in Chatham-Kent over the past week.
Public Health officials say there have been 12 COVID case at Hudson Manor in Tilbury and 13 at Riverview Gardens in Chatham since September 4th, 9 at Maple City Retirement Residence since September 6th, and a total of 15 cases at Village on the Ridge in Ridgetown since September 8th.
The most recent outbreak at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, in the medicine unit at the Chatham hospital, was declared over September 9th with a total of 7 health-care acquired cases.
The weekly update from Public Health show 89 new high-risk cases of COVID-19 confirmed between September 4th and the 10th, increasing the weekly average to 13 new cases a day.
Chatham-Kent’s positivity rate sits at 12.8%, up very slightly from 12.3% a week ago. The provincial rate sits at 10.9%.
Since the pandemic was declared in March, 2020, there have been a total of 9635 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Chatham-Kent, and 86 deaths caused by the virus.
However, public health officials continue to stress case numbers are an underestimate of the total number of infections because of limited PCR testing.