Porcupine Health Unit Reports 32nd COVID-19 Death

Another COVID-19 death's been confirmed in a neighbouring region.

The Porcupine Health Unit's giving no details about its 32nd death linked to the illness, which comes about five-and-a-half months after its 31st.

The health unit's also reporting fifteen new cases in the Timmins area, eight in the James and Hudson Bay region, six in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area, two in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, and two in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, leaving the health unit with 861 "active", one outside its district.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's added 87 in the Thunder Bay area, twelve in unspecified First Nation communities, and seven in unspecified district communities - while removing one from its case count, due to data quality checks - leaving it with 365 "active", including thirteen in hospital, two in ICUs.