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Your Wednesday @TheWECHU update: There are 127 new cases of COVID-19 being reported in #Windsor- #Essex today, and another person has died as a result of the disease. This is the highest ever single-day case increase for the region.
A man in his 20s with no underlying medical conditions has died. This is the youngest local resident to die as a result of COVID-19.
WECHU CEO Theresa Marentette sounds especially solemn today.
The case breakdown: 22 are close contacts of confirmed cases, one is a local health-care worker, three are attributed to community spread, and one is a farm worker. The transmission sources of the remaining 102 cases are still under investigation by public health unit staff.
Medical Officer of Health Dr. Wajid Ahmed said the man who died was 27 years old. He also sounds more solemn than I've ever heard him sound.
For accuracy, a migrant farm worker from Mexico who died earlier this year from COVID-19 was 24 years old.
Both Dr. Ahmed and Theresa Marentette are visibly emotional. Marentette has a 27-year-old daughter and "can't imagine what the family is going through." She's announced a new COVID death in the community every day this week.
She said she sounds like a broken record.
Dr. Ahmed said he saw the case count this morning of 127 and told Marentette, "Let's close our office and go home. There's nothing we can do." He wasn't serious, but he said it feels like the WECHU's work and the work of...
Dr. Ahmed said he saw the case count this morning of 127 and told Marentette, "Let's close our office and go home. There's nothing we can do." He wasn't serious, but he said it feels like the WECHU's work and the work of...
health-care workers "will go to waste if we are not taking things seriously." The local death rate for COVID-19 is roughly 2.2 per cent at the moment. With more than 1,000 cases reported in the last month, that means we may expect more than 22 people to die.
Separately, Dr. Ahmed is calling for the federal government to close the border to all travel except for health-care workers and commercial traffic moving goods. "Not everyone who is crossing the border should be," he says.
"This is not acceptable. We don't want to see more cases, more people traveling." In Ontario, there is guidance telling people who live in areas of high transmission not to travel to areas of low transmission. In Michigan, transmission rates are multiple times higher than here.
He wants to see quarantine orders issued and enforced for those returning to Canada who are not essential workers and need to self-isolate for 14 days.
On the same day as health officials announced the highest single-day jump ever in local COVID-19 infections, the head of @TheWECHU also divulged the “heartbreaking” news that virus had claimed the life of an otherwise healthy 27-year-old resident. https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/covid-19-claims-27-year-old-man-wechu-reports-highest-ever-case-increase
