Two more COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting its 49th and 50th deaths related to the illness - just a day after its 47th - both in Greater Sudbury.
The health unit's also reporting 118 new cases in Greater Sudbury, eight in the Sudbury District, and six in the Manitoulin District, bringing it to 1198 known "active" cases, including 29 in the northern Sudbury District - which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations - though it is now showing the outbreak at Chapleau's Bignucolo Residence long-term care facility is over as of last Monday with no others declared in the community.
Meanwhile, Algoma Public Health's added 47 cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area, five in Central and East Algoma, five in the Elliot Lake area, and five in North Algoma - which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the Michipicoten and Missinabie Cree First Nations - leaving the health unit with 645 "active", including nine in hospital plus a "non-resident case temporarily in Algoma" also in hospital.
The neighbouring Porcupine Health Unit's added seventeen in the Timmins area, ten in the James and Hudson Bay region, five in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area, three in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, and two in the Hearst and Hornepayne area - leaving it with 853 "active", one outside its district - while the Thunder Bay District Health Unit's added 148 in the Thunder Bay area, twelve in district communities, and another in an unspecified First Nation community, leaving it with 265 "active", including seven in hospital, one in an ICU.