APH Reports New COVID-19 Case, PHSD Reports Several

Several new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the region.

Algoma Public Health's added one in the Sault Ste. Marie area - the health unit's 434th case - leaving the health unit with five "active" plus one more non-resident case temporarily in Algoma.

Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts has added eleven cases in Greater Sudbury, one in the eastern part of the Sudbury District, and another in the Manitoulin District, bringing the health unit to 2307.

Despite the new cases, the number "active" actually dropped, to 28: two are in the Manitoulin District, two in the eastern Sudbury District, the rest in Greater Sudbury.

The health unit's also reporting ten more cases confirmed or presumed to be a variant of concern, bringing that to 1084.