Local COVID rates continue to fluctuate.
The Northwestern Health Unit is reporting 218 high-risk cases today (Monday), down from 267 on Friday.
However, the test positivity rate has climbed to 17% from 15.9%.
Meantime, Ontario’s test positivity rate jumped to nearly 18%.
Health officials report that just over 6,200 PCR tests were processed in the last 24-hour period, marking the lowest number of tests processed in labs since last Monday.
This yielded a positivity rate of about 17.9%..
The last time the positivity rate was this high in Ontario was in late January.
An additional 1,741 people tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, however, it’s important to note that Ontario continues to implement testing restrictions and this number is an underestimation as a result.
