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27 new COVID-19 cases in Windsor-Essex

By Allanah Wills
June 20, 2020 - 5:19pm

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported 27 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, with 19 of them coming from the agri-farm sector.

To date, there are 1,290 confirmed cases of the virus in the Windsor-Essex region.

There was also a new death related to the virus reported on Saturday. The latest fatality was a man in his 70s who passed away Friday at the Windsor Regional Hospital Met Campus.

Since the pandemic began, there have been 68 COVID-19 related deaths in Windsor-Essex.

The health unit is currently monitoring two outbreaks in long-term care and retirement homes and 8 workplace outbreaks in the agriculture sector.

As of Saturday, there are 100,629 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Canada and 33,095 cases in Ontario, with 2,564 deaths.

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