The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has announced four new cases of COVID-19 Monday.
Of the new cases three involve residents of a retirement home while one case is in the agri-farm sector.
During the health unit's daily briefing, CEO Theresa Marentette spoke about the recent spike in cases at local retirement homes that have seen 12 confirmed cases since Friday.
There are 17 residents and four staff members dealing with virus at Leamington's New Beginnings.
"It is unfortunate but we are working with them to support them as much as we can and to try to decrease this transmission," says Marentette. "There is a lot of surveillance testing happening at retirement homes and long term care homes, staff and residents and people that are visiting; so I'm not exactly sure how this outbreak occurred."
She says the health unit continues to work closely with all retirement homes.
"The cases that we're seeing is a result of an identified outbreak where there is transmission right now in the home and that's what's happening and has happened with other retirement homes," says Marentette.
In Windsor, Shoreview at Riverside on Drouillard Road is under an outbreak as four staff members are dealing with the virus.
Windsor-Essex now has 2,470 confirmed cases of the virus with 72 deaths — 2,292 cases are listed as resolved.