Four more people have died of COVID-19 in Windsor-Essex over the past 24 hours. One of them was a man in his 40s.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit said the second man in his 50s died, and the other two victims were a man and a woman in their 70s. All four lived in the community.
Tuesday's deaths raise the local death toll during the pandemic to 477.
The health unit also reported 51 new infections. Community acquisition accounts for 19 cases. Another 17 people caught the virus from close contact with a previously confirmed case, one is travel-related, and one more was traced back to an outbreak.
There are currently 32 outbreaks in Windsor-Essex, including nine schools and two long-term care or retirement homes.
Two community outbreaks now number four, and there are outbreaks at 17 workplaces.
Across the region, 504 people have active infections.
Meanwhile, 77.3 per cent of those five and up have had both shots of the vaccine.
