UPDATE AT 6:10pm: Ten more cases: nine in Timmins, one in “area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, Smooth Rock Falls. Now up to 615 and 128 active.
This region has gone over 600 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began. Nine new cases reported today by the Porcupine Health Unit bring the total to 605. One-hundred-and-eighteen are currently active.
Six of the new cases are in Timmins; the other three in what the health unit calls “the area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls and Smooth Rock Falls.
Five are from contact with other cases; one from an outbreak and three are under investigation.
BY THE NUMBERS
91,950 cases
605 positive
118 currently active
461 resolved
26 deaths
29,800 vaccines administered
28,664 people vaccinated
-Source: Porcupine Health Unit, April 29, 2021