APH Reports 19th COVID-19 Death, More Cases Across Region

Algoma's seen its nineteenth COVID-19 death since the pandemic began.

Algoma Public Health isn't giving any further details about the death reported Thursday night, less than a week after its eighteenth.

It also reported nineteen new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area and two more in the Elliot Lake area, leaving it with 251 "active", five in hospital.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts added 46 cases in Greater Sudbury, nine in the Sudbury District, and sixteen in the Manitoulin District, bringing it to 349 "active", including five in the Northern Sudbury District, which includes Chapleau, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations.

The neighbouring Thunder Bay District Health Unit has added 100 cases in the Thunder Bay area and eighteen in unspecified district communities - leaving it with 152 "active", three in hospital, one in an ICU - while the Porcupine Health Unit added 40 in the Timmins area, one in the Hearst and Hornepayne region, fourteen in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, and three in the James and Hudson Bay region, bringing it to 191 "active".