Over the past three days, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has recorded 115 new cases of COVID-19.
There were 39 Saturday, 45 on Sunday, and 31 new infections on Monday.
Fifty-one of those new cases came from close contact with someone who previously tested positive for the virus. Another 29 people caught it in the community. There are ten cases related to outbreaks, and two more are travel-related.
Public health officials are still investigating how another 23 people caught COVID-19.
The jump in the daily case count pushed the number of active cases across the region to 292, of which 148 involve a variant of concern like the Delta strain.
Windsor Regional Hospital currently has 15 patients with the virus. Of those, eight are not vaccinated, six are fully vaccinated, and one has had just one shot.
The number of people over 12 who are now fully vaccinated in Windsor-Essex has climbed to 313,382, or 82.6 per cent of the population.
The outbreak at Margaret D. Bennie Public School in Leamington is over. Four other schools are still experiencing outbreaks; Princess Elizabeth and Essex Public Schools, Ecole elementaire Catholique Saint-Jean Baptiste, and Vincent Massey Secondary School.
There are 16 other outbreaks, including eight in the community, six in workplaces, one at a long-term care or retirement home, and one at the Ouellette Campus of Windsor Regional Hospital.
Province-wide, there were another 552 cases of COVID-19 and 4,985 active cases. The province reported another three deaths from the virus bringing the death toll up to 9,937 since March 2020.