The Northwestern Health Unit is reporting three new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday morning.

According to the regional health authority, all three come from the Rainy River district.

They’re part of the seven active cases the NWHU are monitoring.

Three of the other four are in the Kenora district, while the final one is in the Dryden/Red Lake area.

The health unit says that to date 71,170 doses of vaccine have been administered.

There were a total of 296 new cases reported in Ontario on Tuesday.