BREAKING NEWS: PHU declares an outbreak in its own Hearst office. Two employees have tested positive. Details to follow.
Case 96 of COVID-19 has surfaced in Porcupine Health Unit territory – again, somewhere between Hearst and Hornepayne.
The unidentified patient is in self-isolation. The health unit is looking into how that person contracted the virus.
Of the last eight confirmed test results in the region, six have been in the Hearst-Hornepayne corner of it.