More COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's giving no further details about its 42nd death from the illness, which comes just five days after its 41st - more than half of the health unit's COVID-19-related deaths have been reported since the start of 2022.
It's also reporting 43 new cases in the Sault Ste. Marie area, three 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 - leaving it with 403 known "active" cases - plus four "non-resident cases temporarily in Algoma" - with fifteen local cases in hospital, four in ICUs.
Meanwhile, Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting its 123rd COVID-19 death - the 112th in Greater Sudbury and the 32nd in which the illness contributed to but was not the underlying cause of death.
It's also reporting 86 new cases in Greater Sudbury, seven in the Sudbury District, and eight in the Manitoulin District, leaving it with 290 "active" - including nine in the northern Sudbury District, which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations - with 34 cases in hospital, one in an ICU.
The health unit's holding an "appointment only" vaccination clinic at is Chapleau office today, while White River's Northern Neighbours Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic's holding one for five to eleven-year-olds, and a "walk-in" clinic's being held at Dubreuilville's Eddy K. Lefrancois Recreation Centre from 1 pm to 3 pm this afternoon.