SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. – The Northwestern Health Unit reported three new COVID-19 cases Sunday, involving individuals in its Rainy River and Kenora regions.
The health unit reported one new confirmed case in the Kenora region and two in the Rainy River District, which has reported a recent surge of cases.
The region accounted for 24 of the health unit’s 28 active cases as of Friday, the last time the agency updated its public data.
Both regions encompass over a dozen communities; a full list is available on the NWHU website.
“For reasons of privacy, NWHU minimizes sharing the information about the location of COVID-19 test results,” the health unit reiterated on Facebook as it announced the new cases.
The agency also shared good news Sunday, announcing that two COVID-19 outbreaks at the Atikokan General Hospital's long-term care wing and Riverview Manor, a seniors' assisted living facility in Rainy River, were declared over.
“Enough time has passed with no linked cases to show that spread of the virus in these facilities has stopped,” the health unit stated.
An outbreak at the Rainycrest long-term care home in Fort Frances remains active, and reported a third resident had tested positive on Saturday.
The NWHU had reported a total of 236 cases Friday, including 5 considered probable but not yet confirmed. Of those, 207 were resolved, 28 were active, and one individual had died from the virus.
The health unit's positivity rate, representing the percentage of completed tests that return positive, sat just below 1.7 for the most recent week reported, Jan. 4 to 10. That compared to a rate of about 2.6 province-wide over the same period.
The health unit processed 2,675 tests during that week.
