Porcupine Health Unit Sees 33rd COVID-19 Death, More Cases for APH & TBDHU

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

The Porcupine Health Unit's giving no details about its 33rd death related to the illness, which comes just four days after its 32nd.

The health unit's also reporting 99 cases since Friday, including 20 over the last day: seven in the Timmins area, six in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, three in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, three in the James and Hudson Bay region, and another in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area - that leaves it with 906 known "active" cases, one outside its district.

It's also warning of potential "high-risk" exposure on an Ontario Northland train from Timmins to Cochrane last Thursday, January 13th, and the Polar Bear Express from Cochrane to Moosonee the same day.

Algoma Public Health's added 59 cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area and another in Central and East Algoma, leaving it with 568 "active", including eleven in hospital, plus a "non-resident case temporarily in Algoma", also in hospital.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's added 171 in the Thunder Bay area since Friday plus eight in unspecified First Nation commuinities and five in unspecified district communities - it has 290 "active" including sixteen in hospital, two in ICUs.

Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts has announced it is holding "appointment-only" COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the Chapleau Family Health Team Tuesday and Thursday, and at the PHSD office in Chapleau Friday.

"Appointment only" clinics will also be held at the Gogama Community Centre Wednesday and Thursday.