Health authorities have reported the 81st death of a Thunder Bay district resident in which COVID-19 was determined to be a contributing or underlying factor.
It’s the 11th COVID-related death of the year in the district.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit reported the news in its Wednesday COVID-19 update, while other indictors largely held steady.
The health unit reported 91 new confirmed cases since Monday, with the number of active cases at 173, an increase of one. The figures are considered "a significant under-representation" of the true spread of the virus, given limited access to testing.
The agency reported 34 people in hospital with COVID-19 across the district, up from 31 on Monday, with eight of those patients in the intensive care unit.
In an update Monday evening, the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre reported it had 28 patients admitted with the virus, with eight in ICU.
The health unit reported a 20.1 per cent test positivity rate for the week of Feb. 26 to March 5, on a total of 1,604 tests. That remains well above the provincial average test positivity rate of 9.9 per cent for the same period, the health unit reported.
