January 19, 2022

January 19th is the 19th day of the year. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Bradley Centre Vaccination Clinic will not be open today or tomorrow.

There is a ages 5-11 walk in clinic in Wallaceburg this afternoon 3-7:30 at AA Wright Public School.

The clinic will reopen on Friday. Ages 5-11 can walk in for vaccinations. For 12+, vaccinations are by appointment only, go to GetYourShotCK.ca or by call 519-351-1010. RideCK is offering free rides to and from the clinic.

Chatham-Kent Public Health reported another death from COVID19 on Tuesday, the 36th in C-K.

The Chatham-Kent Health Alliance reported Tuesday that there are 18 patients hospitalized for COVID, two less than Monday.

Ontario reports there are now 4,183 people in the hospital with the virus, up from 3,887 reported Monday. The previous record for hospitalizations was 3,957 reported on Saturday.

Premier Doug Ford says there will be “some positive news” this week on loosening COVID-19 restrictions.

Ontario has been in a modified Step 2 of COVID-19 restrictions since January 5th, closing restaurants, gyms and other businesses, introducing capacity restrictions and limits on gatherings. The measures are scheduled to remain in effect until at least January 26th.

The second phase of the 2022 Chatham-Kent Budget begins this afternoon.

The municipality will be hosting a live Q&A Community Open House session on Facebook today at noon and tomorrow evening at 7pm.

Council deliberations on the budget will begin next week (January 26th, 6pm) and will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube.

For more information on the budget, go to LetsTalkChatham-Kent.ca.

Jamaica is sending a four-man bobsled team to the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing next month for the first time in 24 years.

The team qualified on Monday.

Team Jamaica is also sending athletes in the two-man bob and the women’s monobob, marking the first time in Olympic history that Jamaica has qualified in three bobsled events.

Team Jamaica last competed in the four-man bobsled in 1988 at the Winter Games in Calgary. The famous story of the team, composed of Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White, Freddy Powell and Chris Stokes, inspired the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings.

Jamaica just missed a chance to compete at the 2018 Games.

The 2022 Winter Games begin Friday, February 4th in Beijing.

BREAKING:

JAMAICA, WE HAVE A BOBSLED TEAM HEADING TO BEIJING! 📣

It will be fire on ice as #TeamJamaica 🇯🇲 secured their spot at the 2022 Beijing #WinterOlympics. This will be the 1st time JAM has qualified in 3 Olympic bobsled events: four-man, two-man and women’s monobob pic.twitter.com/hRd5h7lDlG

— Team Jamaica (@TeamJA876) January 17, 2022

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This post was written by Chris McLeod