More COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's giving no further details about its 28th death linked to the illness, which comes just a week after its 27th.
It's also reporting 53 new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area, nine in Central and East Algoma, one in the Elliot Lake area, and three in North Algoma - which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, Michipicoten First Nation, and Missinabie Cree First Nation - leaving it with 617 known "active" cases - plus two "non-resident cases temporarily in Algoma" - 21 in hospital.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's reporting two more COVID-19 deaths - which come nine days after its last death, bringing the health unit's death toll to 77 - as well as 136 new cases in the Thunder Bay area since Wednesday, plus 37 in unspecified First Nation communities and ten in unspecified district communities, leaving it with 359 "active", including 50 in hospital, ten in ICUs.
The Porcupine Health Unit's reporting its 43rd COVID death - three days after its 42nd - while reporting 21 new cases in the Timmins area, eighteen in the James and Hudson Bay region, four in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, four in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, and another in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area, leaving it with 421 "active", 25 in hospital.