Since Dec.31 2021, only people who are showing symptoms are who are at high risk of infection from Covid-19 are being asked to get tested.
Anyone else who has more mild symptoms is to assume they have the virus and isolate appropriately based on vaccine status.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit today released a statement along with today’s case count detailing their new reporting structure.
This means that confirmed cases will significantly underestimate the true number of people with COVID-19 in the TBDHU region. From this point forward, case rates and percent positivity should not be compared to dates before these testing criteria changes.
With today’s data it details that there are 58 new cases.
There is one less in hospital; nine confirmed with one in the ICU.
There are no new deaths since yesterday.
Meanwhile in Ontario there are an estimated 11,582 new cases.
An additional 2,081 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19. According to their data, 288 (202 not fully vaccinated) are in ICUs.
14 more deaths have been logged since yesterday.
