PHSD Reports New COVID-19 Cases, Fewer in Northern Sudbury District

More COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the region.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts is reporting 23 since Wednesday - seventeen in Greater Sudbury, three in the broader Sudbury District, and three in the Manitoulin District - pushing known "active" cases up slightly, to 133 - 20 in hospital, one in an ICU.

There are two cases still "active" in the northern Sudbury District (which includes Chapleau, Cartier, Foleyet, Gogama, and neighbouring First Nations), down slightly from Wednesday's four.

The health unit's also reduced its COVID-related death toll, removing a death in Greater Sudbury in which it was unclear whether COVID was the cause or merely contributed - such a death was reported last Monday.