Another local resident has lost their life to COVID-19.
Medical Officer Dr. David Colby says a man in his 90s was admitted to hospital in respiratory distress and later passed away.
The man, the municipality’s 25th death caused by the virus, was fully vaccinated.
At the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, 11 COVID-positive patients are being treated. Six of those patients are on ventilators. CEO Lori Marshall says in an unprecedented move, one local COVID patient who was on a ventilator was transferred to another hospital in Woodstock.
Marshall says six non-urgent surgeries were cancelled or postponed this week because of the pressure on the health care system and shortage of available beds.
Overall, there are now 149 active cases of COVID-19 in Chatham-Kent with 26 new infections being reported today and 22 cases resolved.
There are now eight active outbreaks across the municipality. Fifteen local cases have been linked to a wedding and another school outbreak has been declared, this time at Tilbury Area Public School with three cases.
That brings the total number of school-based outbreaks to five, plus ongoing outbreaks at a church and manufacturing facility.