APH & PHSD Report COVID-19 Deaths & More Cases

Two more COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.

Algoma Public Health's confirmed its sixteenth - just three days after it saw its fifteenth - though it is giving no further details.

It has also confirmed 29 new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area, bringing the health unit's total to 1150, with 378 currently "active", nine in hospital.

Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts has confirmed its 39th death related to the illness - just a week after the health unit's 38th, bringing its death toll over November to seven - though it is similarly giving no details, with figures only showing it was in Greater Sudbury, like all other deaths for the health unit.

Figures also show 45 new cases in Greater Sudbury, ten in the Sudbury District, and two in the Manitoulin District, bringing it to 3858 total, with 292 "active".

The health unit's holding an "appointment-only" COVID-19 vaccination clinic at its Chapleau office today and another tomorrow.