Another COVID-19 death's been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's reporting its 106th since the pandemic began (it doesn't say where) - it last reported a death five months ago, in late July.
The health unit's also reporting 54 new cases over the last week - 45 in the Sault Ste. Marie area, five in the Elliot Lake area, three in Central and East Algoma, and another in North Algoma (which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the Michipicoten and Missinabie Cree First Nations), the first in three weeks - more than doubling known "high risk active" cases to 59, with six in hospital, one in an ICU.