APH Reports 393rd COVID-19 Case, PHSD Reports 2 More

More COVID-19 cases are being reported across the region.

Algoma Public Health's confirmed its 393rd - a resident of the Sault Ste. Marie area - leaving it with eight "active" cases plus three "non-resident cases temporarily in Algoma", all three of which are in hospital, while a 101st case screened positive for a variant of concern.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts has confirmed two more cases, but also says two have been removed from the count because they were "recorded in error", keeping its total at 2093, with 27 "active".

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's added two cases in the Thunder Bay area and two more in unspecified First Nation communities - bringing it to 3241 reported, with 52 "active", three in hospital - while thirteen more cases with variants of concern were identified, bringing that total to 122.

The Porcupine Health Unit - meanwhile - is reporting 33 cases in the Timmins area, twenty in the James and Hudson Bay region, three in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, and three more in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area - that brings it to 1433, with 309 "active", though four are outside the district - it's also showing the number of cases with variants of concern jumped to 674 over the last week.