Health bosses are warning people not to be complacent as the number of new coronavirus cases continue to fall.
Just 21 people tested positive in the week ending March 7 – less than half the tally of 51 for the week before.
While hailing the news, interim director of public health Valerie White is urging people to continue to stick to the rules.
She said: “It’s fantastic that the number of new cases has declined, but this is not the end of the story by any means.
“We saw at the end of last year how a handful of cases skyrocketed to see us with the highest rate of Covid-19 in the whole of Scotland within just a few short weeks.
“Everybody needs to continue to follow the national directions, and help keep themselves and others safe. This also applies if you’ve been vaccinated, and regardless of whether that’s just once or twice.
“Restrictions are starting to change gradually on a national basis, but we really need to maintain our guard. Let’s not risk all that’s been worked for by stretching the rules.”
The drop in the number of new cases has also seen the positivity rate fall from 1.7 per cent to around 0.8 per cent.
And as of March 4, the seven day positivity rate was down to 17.5 per 100,000, compared to the 36.3 per cent rate for the week ending February 25.
The locally calculated positivity rate for Dumfries and Galloway was estimated at about 0.8 per cent, down from 1.7 per cent.
Today there were a further seven new cases, taking the overall total to 4,081.
There were seven people in hospital with less than five in intensive care.
There have been cases across the region in the past fortnight, with figures from Public Health Scotland showing more than half of new cases in the past seven days have been in the Sanquhar area.
