More COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's reporting two, bringing its COVID-related death toll to 79 - 58 this year alone - but is giving few details except that COVID was the underlying cause of death in one and contributed to but was not the underlying cause of death in another - it last reported a death last Thursday.
The health unit's also reporting 56 new cases since Thursday - 45 in the Sault Ste. Marie area, seven in Central and East Algoma, three in the Elliot Lake area, and another in North Algoma (which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the Michipicoten and Missinabie Cree First Nations) - though known "high risk active" cases are down to 113, with hospitalizations down to 23, including three in ICUs.