Two more COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts is giving no details about its 47th death related to the illness, which comes just a day after its 46th, bringing the death toll this week alone to four.
The health unit's also reporting 28 new cases in Greater Sudbury, five in the Sudbury District, and two in the Manitoulin District, bringing its total to 4477, with 292 "active".
Laurentian University is reporting one of the recent cases in the region is a case of the Omicron variant on its Greater Sudbury campus, prompting it to reschedule some exams to be taken remotely.
Meanwhile, the Thunder Bay District Health Unit's reported its 69th COVID-19 death - just a week after its 68th - while reporting ten new cases in the Thunder Bay area, bringing the health unit to 3805 total, with 57 "active", two in hospital, one in an ICU - it's also advising residents of its area against "non-essential" travel outside of Northwestern Ontario, regardless of vaccination status.
The Porcupine Health Unit's added three in the Timmins region, two in the Hearst and Hornepayne region, and two in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls region - bringing it to 2333 total, with 50 "active" - while Algoma Public Health's added sixteen cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area and three in Central and East Algoma - bringing it to 1571 total, with 263 "active", eight in hospital - it's also warning of "low-risk" exposure for those who attended the La Vie en Rose, Bootlegger, As Seen On TV, True Family Health, Ricardo's Pizza, and Food Court areas of the Sault's Station Mall between 1:30 and 3 pm last Sunday, December 12th.