The number of active high-risk COVID-19 cases is just shy of 300 with hospitalizations rising slightly.
Friday’s Hastings Prince Edward Public Health dashboard shows 18 people in hospital with three in intensive care.
On Wednesday there were 17 people in hospital and two in ICU.
There were 116 new high-risk cases Friday driving the number of active cases up to 299.
There are 10 active outbreaks in high-risk settings.
Eighty-three per cent of the HPE population aged five and up have received two doses of a COVID vaccine while booster doses have now been administered to 89,396 people.
In Northumberland Friday, the Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit reported 28 new high-risk cases and 50 active.
