Public Health continues to work at getting as many temporary foreign workers vaccinated against COVID-19 as possible.
Earlier this week, a Guatemalan migrant worker in his 30s died while quarantining in Lambton County.
Chatham-Kent’s Medical Officer, Dr. David Colby, says mobile teams have been visiting farms across the municipality for the last few weeks.
“As you can well imagine, it’s very labour intensive to send a team out to vaccinate each location with potentially a fairly small number of individuals,” Dr. Colby says. “Those efforts continue every week, and I think we’ve largely have got that segment completed.”
There’s also a program to get foreign workers vaccinated as they enter the country, and Dr. Colby says second doses should be starting shortly as well.
“Some of our largest outbreaks have been in that sector in Chatham-Kent, so I think it’s very important that we continue to prioritize that.”
Dr. Colby says three have been some temporary foreign workers who have refused the shot, as tends to be the case in any sector of the population, but overall uptake has been quite good.