After almost a full week of single-digit COVID-19 cases, the Northwestern Health Unit is seeing again double figures.
The Northwestern Health Unit reports 14 new cases today.
Seven come from the Kenora Health Hub, five from the Sioux Lookout region and two more within the Dryden area.
There are now 50 active cases. None are in the Rainy River District.
“In the Sioux Lookout area, there’s a number of communities in that catchment area that are affected. In Sioux Lookout, the municipality itself, there has been quite a few number of cases. The general trend is that someone has travelled from outside the region or been in contact with someone outside the region,” says Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kit Young Hoon.
“On occasion, however, we do get some cases where they’ve not travelled and don’t appear to be linked to travel. So there is still a possibility of some local transmission happening in our catchment area.”
Dr. Young Hoon says it’s a similar situation in the Kenora Health Hub.
She notes in most cases, it’s generally a couple of households and close contacts impacted.
Dr. Young Hoon adds variants of concern are not a current issue here. Only five variant cases have been identified.
They were all spread among very close contacts with three cases connected to the Fort Frances area and two in the Dryden region.
Case numbers are going down in Thunder Bay.
Twenty new cases were recorded Friday. Its active case count has dropped to 259.
Ontario reported 2,169 new COVID-19 cases and 12 more deaths.
