No change to Haliburton’s COVID-19 case count Wednesday

The local health unit reported no change to Haliburton’s COVID-19 case count on Wednesday. 

The County of Haliburton remains at seven active cases with 16 high-risk contacts identified to date. 

One recovery and two new cases were added in Kawartha Lakes standing now at 23 active cases and 54 high-risk contacts found. 

In Northumberland, four new cases and four recoveries were added keeping them at 63 active cases with 30 more high-risk contacts identified over the last 24 hours. 

17 more people screened positive for a variant of concern, all in Northumberland. 

The Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit did 758 tests for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.