Another COVID-19 death's been confirmed in the region.
Algoma Public Health's reporting its 117th since the pandemic began - it doesn't say where - it last reported a death last week.
The health unit's also reporting 29 new cases over the last week - eighteen in the Sault Ste. Marie area, seven in the Elliot Lake area, two in Central and East Algoma, and two in North Algoma (which includes Wawa, Dubreuilville, White River, and the Michipicoten and Missinabie Cree First Nations) - though known "high risk active" cases dropped to 53, with thirteen in hospital, one in an ICU.