More COVID-19 cases are being reported across the region.
Algoma Public Health's confirmed two in the Sault Ste. Marie area and two in the Elliot Lake area, bringing it to 365 total - 31 "active", one in hospital - while one more screened positive for a variant of concern, bringing that total to 75.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts reported ten more cases in Greater Sudbury and three in the Sudbury District - it also decreased the number reported in the Manitoulin District, though it's unclear if that shifted to Greater Sudbury or the Sudbury District - bringing the health unit to 2047, 57 currently "active".
Seven more cases screened positive for a variant of concern - bringing that to 876 - while an outbreak's been declared at IAMGOLD's Côté Gold Project in Gogama.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's reported one case in the Thunder Bay area, one in an unspecified district community, and two in an unspecified First Nation community, bringing the health unit to 3165 - 32 "active", including four in hospital, one in an ICU - while six more cases with a variant of concern were identified, bringing that to 74.
The neighbouring Porcupine Health Unit's added 38 cases in the Timmins area, four in the James and Hudson Bay area, and one in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area.
That brings the health unit to 856 cases, though it hasn't updated its "active" case count since Friday, when it reported 194 - two "outside the district" - that is the most of any Northern health unit at this time.
The health unit's also declared outbreaks at the Monteith Correctional Centre and an off-site facility of the Timmins and District Hospital, while warning of potential exposure from Vet's Taxi in Timmins May 6th to 8th.