“my advice (to dupuis) is to take it one day at a time,” she said. “i will always support her — i’ll be travelling eventually, but i’m available always to support nicole and she knows that.
“taking it one day at a time has worked for us through this pandemic and doing the best we can. i think she’s already there.”
marentette said the community is now further along with the covid-19 vaccine rollout than she anticipated it would be when she first announced her retirement in early april.
so far, more than 74 per cent of windsor-essex adults have received at least one dose of a covid-19 vaccine, and nearly 45 per cent of adults are fully vaccinated.
wednesday’s local covid-19 statistics:
- total cases: 16,830
- new cases: 10
– 4 community acquired
– 1 travel related
– 5 under investigation
- active cases: 60
- covid deaths: 435
– the death of a woman in her 70s who lived in the community was reported on wednesday.
- hospitalized cases: 16 (6 in icu)
- resolved cases: 16,335
- variant of concern cases: 1,948
– 1,802 cases of the alpha (b.1.1.7) variant, which originated in the u.k.
– 4 cases of the beta (b.1.351) variant, which was first sequenced in south africa
– 16 cases of the gamma (p.1) variant, which was first sequenced in brazil