UPDATE: Twelve more cases added for a total of 50 today. Eleven in Timmins, one on the coast. Two-hundred-and-eight-seven currently active; 1,022 confirmed since beginning of pandemic.
The Porcupine Health Unit has surpassed the 1,000 COVID-19 case mark.
Thirty-eight new cases confirmed today put the running total at 1,010.
Twenty of the new cases are in Timmins. Eleven are on the coast; five in the area between Smooth Rock Falls and Matheson; and one each in the Hearst-Hornepayne area and between Fauquier and Opasatika.
BY THE NUMBERS
98,274 tests
1,010 positive
364 variants of concern
275 currently active
709 resolved
26 deaths
43,953 vaccinations
39,454 people vaccinated
ACTIVE CASES BY COMMUNITY
208 – Timmins
34 – James Bay-Hudson Bay coastal area
30 – Area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, Smooth Rock Falls
2 – Area of Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, Fauquier-Strickland
1 – Area of Hearst, Hornepayne
-Source: Porcupine Health Unit, May 21, 2021
