Two more COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's giving no further details about its 23rd death linked to the illness, reported Saturday, four days after its 22nd.
The health unit reported 121 new cases over the weekend: 92 in the Sault Ste. Marie area; fourteen in Central and East Algoma; nine in the Elliot Lake area; and six in North Algoma, which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, Michipicoten First Nation, and Missinabie Cree First Nation.
It currently has 588 known "active" cases plus four "non-resident cases temporarily in Algoma" with eighteen cases in hospital, plus one non-resident case, with outbreaks recently declared at the Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Extendicare Van Daele in the Sault, Thessalon's Algoma Manor, and the Light Haven retirement home in Bruce Mines.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts has confirmed its 63rd COVID-19 death - the 59th in Greater Sudbury and the fifth death of the last week - while reporting 130 new cases in Greater Sudbury, five in the Sudbury District, and nine in the Manitoulin District, leaving it with 983 known "active" cases, ten in the northern Sudbury District, which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations.