Between last Friday and Tuesday morning, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit counted 110 new cases of COVID-19.
On Saturday, there were 43 new infections, 32 on Sunday, and 14 on Thanksgiving Monday. The health unit counted 21 on Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, the region surpassed another milestone for the number of cases since the pandemic started. The total caseload since March 2020 is now 20,088.
Of the latest, 67 people caught it from having close contact with another case public health officials are aware of and tracking. Twenty-one cases are considered community transmission. Six others are travel-related, and six are related to an outbreak.
Public health officials are still investigating where another ten people caught the virus.
The number of active cases across Windsor-Essex is 241, of which 143 involve a variant of concern.
A total of 17 workplaces and two long-term care or retirement homes are experiencing outbreaks. There are two more in the community, at the Downtown Mission and the Salvation Army, and four at schools, Ecole elementaire Louise-Charron, Ecole elementaire Catholique Georges P. Vanier, Sandwich West Public School, and Ecole elementaire Catholique Sainte-Ursule.
The region's vaccination rate continues to rise slowly. As of Tuesday, 79.1 per cent of all eligible residents, over 12, have had both doses. More than 4,300 have had a third.