CK Public Health is confirming the fourth death of a Chatham-Kent resident linked to COVID-19.
The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance has confirmed the death is not connected to any patients in hospital locally. One local patient has been released. The CKHA continue to have one positive patient in the ICU who is a non-CK resident.
The health unit is also reporting 17 new cases and two recoveries on Tuesday. Chatham-Kent’s active case count has increased to 31.
Close contact transmission is the leading exposure of the current active cases, with 18 infections linked to close contact. Ten active cases are currently pending exposure. One case is linked to an outbreak in a community setting, while one is linked to an institutional outbreak and one is unknown.
Public Health has also declared an outbreak at Chatham’s Riverview Gardens. One staff member has tested positive and is now in self-isolation. The health unit has notified and isolated staff and residents who may have been exposed to the person.
All school and workplace outbreaks have been declared over.
In total, Chatham-Kent has reported 512 infections, 477 recoveries and four deaths.
The province confirmed 1,707 new cases and seven new deaths on Tuesday. Toronto recorded a record-high 727 new cases, with 373 in Peel and 168 in York. Windsor-Essex reported 47 new infections with two new cases in Lambton County. Meanwhile, today’s epidemiology report has Middlesex-London reporting “minus-10 new cases”, with 10 former false positives.
