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December 16, 2021
December 16th is the 350th day of 2021. There are 15 days remaining until the end of the year.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning for Chatham-Kent calling for very strong winds today.
Strong southwesterly winds with gusts of 70 to 80 km/h are expected. Highest winds are expected along the shores of Lake Huron.
The warning is for Windsor, Leamington, Essex County, Chatham-Kent, and Rondeau Park. The wind should start to ease off later tonight.
Anyone 18 and older will be eligible for a booster as of Monday, December 20th, provided they had their second dose 84 days ago.
Effective immediately, anyone who was already eligible for boosters at the previous six-month interval can now move appointments up to three months since their second dose. Eligibility for boosters to all adults was initially set for January 4th.
Starting Saturday at 12:01am, Ontario is introducing capacity limits of 50% for indoor entertainment venues, meeting and event spaces, sports venues with a indoor capacity greater than 1,000 people, as well as movie theaters and casinos. Food and drink establishments are not effected by the changes at this time.
Another eighteen new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday by Chatham-Kent Public Health.
There were 25 resolved cases, the number of active cases locally is 144.
Ontario reported 1,808 new cases – it’s the daily highest case count in nearly seven months.
The Municipality of Chatham-Kent will host a Facebook Live presentation Community Presentation on Enumeration.
The presentation on local homelessness will begin at 7:30 on the municipality’s Facebook page.
In October the Municipality, and other organizations, identified 171 individuals as being homeless. This is a 144% increase from the last enumeration in 2018.
There will be an opportunity for questions.
Join us on Facebook Live Thursday as we discuss homelessness in Chatham-Kent. https://t.co/NL2KPI5NCz pic.twitter.com/CpCtwycB5y
— Municipality of Chatham-Kent (@MunicCK) December 15, 2021
A 683 lb blue sapphire has been discovered in Sri Lanka.
The stone was found in a gem-rich area where local people had previously found the world’s largest star sapphire cluster in a backyard, by accident. It could be worth more than $100 million.
Before it was unveiled, a group of Buddhist monks chanted blessings for the gemstone.
Sri Lanka shows off a giant natural blue sapphire. Local gemologists said it was one of the rarest gems in the world https://t.co/DDja7KAxmQ pic.twitter.com/aQECdbsWc0
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 12, 2021
