More COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Greater Sudbury.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting two in which the illness was the underlying cause of death, bringing the health unit's COVID-related death toll to 137, 122 in the city - it last reported deaths a week ago.
It's also added 156 new cases since Monday - 123 in Greater Sudbury, 26 in the Sudbury District, and seven in the Manitoulin District - leaving it with 475 known "active" cases - twenty in the northern Sudbury District (which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations) - with 55 cases in hospital, four in ICUs.
The health unit is holding an "appointment only" vaccination clinic at its Chapleau office today.
Meanwhile, Algoma Public Health's added 40 cases in the last day - 32 in the Sault Ste. Marie area, four in Central and East Algoma, two in the Elliot Lake area, and two in North Algoma (which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the Michipicoten and Missinabie Cree First Nation) - leaving it with 284 "active", 30 in hospital, eight in ICUs.
North Algoma's now moved away from holding clinics to instead having people book appointments: for Wawa, call the local Algoma Public Health office; for Dubreuilville, call the Dubreuilville Medical Centre; for White River, call the Northern Neighbours Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.