For the fourth day in a row, there’s a new case of COVID-19 in the Kenora area.
Northwestern Health Unit’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kit Young Hoon, is warning of increased COVID-19 risk.
She calls it a wake-up call.
Currently, there are now ten active cases within the Health Unit’s catchment area. Six of those are in the Kenora area.
None are in the Rainy River district.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is reporting eleven new cases of COVID-19 in its catchment area.
Health officials have determined they all caught the virus from someone else who had it.
n Minnesota, there were eight new cases of COVID-19 in Koochiching County.
With the latest number, 83 cases are now active.
There have also been more than 68-hundred tests conducted in the County.
That’s roughly half of all people who live there.
(With files from Tim Davidson/89.5 The Lake and Vic Krasowski/99.9 The Bay)
