THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay District Health Unit reported four new COVID-19 cases Saturday, with the daily case count remaining in the single figures for a fifth straight day.
With five previous cases declared resolved, the number of confirmed active cases in the district fell to 56, the lowest total since Jan. 8.
All four of the cases reported Saturday involved residents of Thunder Bay and the surrounding areas. Two were attributed to household contact, and two to travel outside of Northwestern Ontario.
There were nine district residents in hospital with the virus as of Saturday, a decline of three from the previous day. Three of those people were in the Intensive Care Unit.
The TBDHU's incidence rate stood at approximately 28.01 cases per 100,000 people over the past week, its lowest level since Jan. 6.
The health unit reported a testing positivity rate of 1.8 per cent for April 4 to 10, the most recent data it has reported. It reports 3,057 tests conducted over that period, but notes those numbers could still be incomplete.
No new variants of concern were reported Saturday. There have been 10 variant cases identified so far in the health unit.
The health unit has reported a total of 3,004 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Of those, 56 are active and 2,890 are considered resolved, while the virus was determined to be a contributing or underlying cause of 58 deaths.
