Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting another COVID-19-related death at a retirement home in the midst of an outbreak.
The health unit says the death - its sixth since the pandemic began - is linked to the outbreak at the Amberwood Suites retirement home in Greater Sudbury, where three other residents have died in the last five days.
It's giving no other details.
Figures released late yesterday show the health unit has reported 395 cases, 62 currently "active".
Cases are also skyrocketing in a couple neighbouring regions.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's reporting thirteen more in the Thunder Bay area - five linked to the outbreak at the Thunder Bay District Jail and two to the outbreak at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre - with eleven more in unspecified "district communities", all linked to the outbreak at Valard Construction's East-West Tie Project in Marathon.
That brings the health unit to 756 cases, 92 "active" including three in hospital, one in the I-C-U.
Meanwhile, the Porcupine Health Unit's reporting ten new cases linked to an outbreak at Extendicare Kapuskasing, and seven in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, all stemming from close contact with a known case.
These bring the health unit to 187 cases, 31 currently "active".
Algoma Public Health - which reported its first COVID-19 death yesterday - currently has 28 "active" cases.