The Northwestern Health Unit is reporting two new cases of COVID-19 within its catchment area.
One of the new cases is in the Sioux Lookout health hub, while the other comes from the Kenora area.
There are now 51 active cases within the NWHU, down from the 78 reported on Sunday.
Twenty-nine cases are in the Sioux Lookout area, 18 in the Kenora region, three near Fort Frances and one in the Emo area.
Two people remain in hospital, down one from Sunday’s report.
Another number on the decline is the test positivity rate. It now sits at 1.04 per cent.
To date, the Northwestern Health Unit has administered 33,216 doses of vaccine, which works out to 48 per cent of the region.
The Kenora health hub has the highest vaccination rate (57 per cent), followed by Atikokan (51 per cent), Fort Frances (49 per cent) and Sioux Lookout (48 per cent).
The Dryden, Red Lake, Rainy River and Emo areas are at 46, 35, 33 and 30 per cent respectively.
In Minnesota, there were no new cases in Koochiching County but one case in Lake of the Woods County.
Minnesota confirmed almost 12-hundred new cases on Monday with no deaths.
