The Northwestern Health Unit is changing their daily COVID-19 updates to include information that better represents the impact the virus is having on the region.
Positive cases will no longer be announced by Health Hubs, instead health officials are reporting hospitalizations, percent positivity rate, active outbreaks and the number of active cases.
As of today, six people are hospitalized in the region due to the virus including two in Intensive Care Units.
The 7-day percent positivity rate is 17.3% with 211 active high-risk cases.
There are also 4 active outbreaks in the region, including one in a hospital, one in a long term care home and two listed as other.
Due to testing eligibility, case numbers only represent those who live or work in higher-risk settings and daily case numbers should not be used to assess risk in a community or in our region.
More local data can be found here.
In the meantime, more walk in opportunities for those eligible and wanting the COVID-19 vaccine.
It’s on at the Dryden Best Western 10:30am-3:30pm.
More on eligibility can be found here.
