Local hospitalizations due to COVID-19 were up Friday but ICU admissions went down.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health reported 10 people with COVID-19 in hospital Friday, two of them in the ICU.
On Wednesday there were seven people hospitalized and four in intensive care.
The number of COVID-related deaths since the start of the pandemic remains the same at 45.
There were 87 new, high-risk cases Friday and 233 active cases, up from Wednesday’s 220.
Eight outbreaks in high-risk settings remain active, a decrease of one since the last report.
Eighty-three per cent of HPE residents aged five and up have received two doses of a COVID vaccine, while booster doses have been delivered to more than 88,800 people.
There were 24 new and 50 active high-risk cases in Northumberland Friday as reported by the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit.
