Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Windsor, Photo by Mark Brown, WindsorNewsToday.ca.Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Windsor, Photo by Mark Brown, WindsorNewsToday.ca.
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Health unit offering supports for reopening businesses

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit is working with the local business community to provide tools for a safe and smooth reopening.

Resources and virtual education sessions are being offered through the Windsor Essex Chamber of Commerce to address employee health and well-being as business starts back up.

"What are some of the things from a public health perspective that they can use to ensure that their businesses are safe and they are the provincial requirements and guidelines," said Dr. Wajid Ahmed, medical officer of health. "We felt that is was important for them, and also for us, to have some kind of a toolkit available that people can use and identify what are some of the things that they need to do to ensure that their businesses are ready."

Dr. Ahmed said they would be using provincial guidelines as well as their expertise to create sector-specific information for local businesses.

As of Thursday morning, 16,486 people have been tested in the region, 927 cases are confirmed. That is an increase of seven in the last 24 hours. The health unit reports all seven are connected to the agri-food sector. There are 1,107 test results pending.

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