TBDHU Reports 84th COVID-19 Death, PHU Sees New Cases

Another COVID-19 death's been confirmed in the region.

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit's giving no details about its 84th death, which comes five days after it reported its 83rd.

It's also reporting 71 cases since Friday - 55 in the Thunder Bay area, nine in unspecified First Nation communities, and seven in unspecified district communities - though the number of known "active" cases is down to 108, including 25 in hospital, nine in ICUs.

Meanwhile, the Porcupine Health Unit's added 106 cases since Friday - 58 in the James and Hudson Bay region, 20 in the Timmins area, twelve in the Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls area, seven in the Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland area, five in the Hearst and Hornepayne area, and another out of the region - leaving it with 216 "active", eight in hospital.