PHSD Reports 149th COVID-19 Death, APH Sees New Cases

Another COVID-19 death's been confirmed in Greater Sudbury.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting the 131st in the city, the health unit's 149th - it last reported a death on Friday.

The health unit's also reporting twenty new cases - seventeen in Greater Sudbury, one in the Sudbury District, and two in the Manitoulin District - leaving it with 155 "active" - two in the northern Sudbury District (which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations) - with 38 hospital, two in ICUs.

It's holding an "appointment only" vaccination clinics at its Chapleau office today.

North Algoma - on the other hand - has shifted to booking appointments for vaccination rather than holding clinics: in Wawa, call the local Algoma Public Health office; in Dubreuilville, the Dubreuilville Medical Centre; in White River, the Northern Neighbours Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic.

Algoma Public Health's added ten cases - six in the Sault Ste. Marie area, two in Central and East Algoma, and two in the Elliot Lake area - though the number of known "active" cases is down to 75 - plus one "non-resident case temporarily in Algoma" - with fifteen cases in hospital, one in an ICU, both down from the day before.

It has eight "active" outbreaks, one at Elliot Lake's St. Joseph's General Hospital, the rest in the Sault, including Algoma Manor, Extendicare Maple View, FJ Davey Home, Great Northern Retirement Home, Ontario Finnish Resthome, and Sault Area Hospital.