Windsor-Essex put into Yellow Alert

TORONTO — As COVID numbers soar across the province, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Ontario health team have placed Windsor-Essex into a Yellow Alert effective this past Monday.

Toronto, Peel and other hot-spot regions have been put into a Red Alert and restrictions have been ramped up in those areas.

For this area, restrictions stay relatively the same, but the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit stresses that we must be extra vigilant.

Besides the usual health guidelines, they are asking residents to stick to household members only when visiting and keeping social gatherings to 10 indoors and 25 outdoors.

Windsor-Essex spent the past few weeks with daily numbers in the single digits, but last week they soared well into the thirties.