Another COVID-19 death's been reported in a neighbouring region.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's giving no details about its 55th death, which comes as the health unit reports five more cases in the Thunder Bay area and seven in unspecified First Nations - it has seen 2949 cases since the pandemic began, with 101 currently "active", twelve in hospital, five in an ICU.
Algoma Public Health - meanwhile - has confirmed its 254th case - like most of its cases, it's in the Sault Ste. Marie area - leaving the health unit with 26 "active" cases, one in hospital.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts has one case in the Sudbury District and eighteen in Greater Sudbury - bringing its total to 1619 - though the number "active" declined slightly to 262 - and it's reporting 20 more cases screened positive for variants of concern, bringing that total to 477.
The neighbouring Porcupine Health Unit's reported three more cases in the Timmins area and five in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area - two of those linked to a newly declared outbreak amid employees of the Township of Black River-Matheson.
That brings the health unit to 392 cases - 32 active - though it's also noting eight previously-reported cases have screened positive for a variant of concern, expected to be B.1.1.7 - first detected in the U-K - though testing samples of non-residents currently isolating in the health unit's region have confirmed a variant type previously detected in South Africa and Brazil.