There has been a big jump in the number of active COVID-19 cases in the region.
On Friday, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit said 25 people in the community were actively infectious. By Tuesday morning, there were 40, and 11 of those cases involved a variant of concern.
Public health officials reported 24 new cases of the virus Tuesday over the past four days. On Friday, there were three new ones, five each on Saturday and Sunday, and 11 infections on Monday.
Fifteen are currently under investigation to find out where those people caught COVID-19. Another five were infected after close contact with a case that is already confirmed by the health unit, while three caught it in the community and one case is related to travel.
For the first time in a week there is a case currently being treated in the hospital.
Before the province can move into the final step of the Ford government's Roadmap to Reopen plan, all public health units must have at least 70 per cent of its total population fully vaccinated. Windsor-Essex is still below that with 66.9 per cent of the region's having had both shots, as of Tuesday.
Across the province, 71.2 per cent of all residents are fully vaccinated, up from 68 per cent last Friday.
Provincial officials reported 164 new COVID-19 cases and two new deaths from the virus, while the number of active cases across Ontario rose to 1,717, up from 1,667.
So far, 63.7 per cent of all eligible Canadians are fully vaccinated.
