Algoma Public Health's reporting two more deaths linked to COVID-19.
While the health unit isn't giving any further details about the deaths - which bring its death toll since the pandemic began to 26 - they come just two days after it reported its last death linked to the illness.
It's also reporting 29 new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area, eight in Central and East Algoma, three in the Elliot Lake area, and one in North Algoma - which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, Michipicoten First Nation, and Missinabie Cree First Nation - though the health unit's number of known "active" cases is down to 595, including eighteen in hospital - also down - plus one "non-resident case temporarily in Algoma", also in hospital.
The Porcupine Health Unit's also reporting another death linked to the illness - its third this week and the 37th since the pandemic began - while adding eighteen cases in the Timmins area, eight in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, six in the James and Hudson Bay region, four in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, and two in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area - that leaves it with 450 known "active" cases, one outside its district.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's added 203 in the Thunder Bay area, sixteen in unspecified distrit communities, and eight in unspecified First Nation communities, leaving it with 341 known "active" cases, 53 in hospital, eight in ICUs.