More COVID Outbreaks in Long Term Care

COVID-19 continues to spread across Chatham-Kent.

The weekly update from CK Public Health includes 88 new cases between November 13^th and the 19^th, raising the seven-day average to 13 high risk cases a day.

Public health officials noted that the number of active cases in the municipality is an underestimate due to restrictions on PCR testing.

Chatham-Kent’s positivity rate is at 14.9% compared to 15.8 a week ago. The provincial rate for the past week is 10.9%.

Public Health is keeping tabs on two long term care outbreaks. There have been 13 cases at Riverview Gardens in Chatham since November 10^th, and 42 cases at Fairfield Park in Wallaceburg since November 14.