Algoma Sees 20th COVID-19 Death, APH & PHSD Report Rising New Cases

Algoma Public Health's confirmed its 20th COVID-19 death.

Citing "respect for the family", the health unit isn't giving any further details about the death, which comes just a week after its nineteenth.

The health unit's also reporting 104 new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area plus seven in Central and East Algoma, and five in the Elliot Lake area - it currently has 402 "active", three in hospital.

Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts added 186 in Greater Sudbury, thirteen in the Sudbury District, and two in the Manitoulin District.

It has a record 816 "active", fourteen in the northern Sudbury District, which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations - it doesn't specify the community, but an outbreak was declared at Chapleau's Bignucolo Residence last Thursday.