142 new COVID-19 cases reported by health unit

The Windsor- Essex County Health Unit reported 142 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total infection count for the region nearer to 10,000.

To date, 9,815 local residents have tested positive for the virus in a population of roughly 400,000.

There are currently 2,728 active cases in the region, with 99 in hospital and 17 of them in ICU.

No additional COVID-19 deaths were reported on Monday, though the deaths of eight people were announced over the weekend.

Five of those individuals lived in long-term care and retirement homes. They were two men and two women in their 80s and a woman in her 90s. A woman in her 70s and a man and a woman in their 80s who live in the general community also died.

Since March, 210 people in Windsor-essex have lost their lives to COVID-19. Of those, 138 were residents of long-term care and retirement homes. There are 45 active outbreaks across the region.

Twenty-one of the outbreaks are at long-term care and retirement homes. Notably, the 151 residents and 106 staff members at The Village at St. Clair in Windsor have tested positive for COVID-19, as have 93 residents and 57 staff at Berkshire Care Centre, located downtown at 350 Dougall Ave.

Also hard-hit are Banwell Gardens Care Centre in Windsor (106 residents and 38 staff ), Extendicare Tecumseh (81 residents and 42 staff), Huron Lodge in Windsor (43 residents and 22 staff) and Village of Aspen Lake in East Riverside (50 residents an 16 staff).