UPDATE AT 4:50pm: Two more cases added for a total of 31, and 771 overall. One is in Timmins; the other in “the area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls and Smooth Rock Falls.”
The Porcupine Health Unit region is obviously not following the provincial downward trend in COVID-19 infections. It reports another 29 today, for a running total of 769. There are 165 cases that are currently active.
All but two of today’s new cases are in Timmins. There is also one somewhere between Fauquier and Opasatika, and one between Smooth Rock Falls and Matheson.
BY THE NUMBERS
95,477 tests
769 positive
165 currently active
26 deaths
36,384 vaccinations
35,046 people vaccinated
ACTIVE CASES BY COMMUNITY
150 – Timmins
11 – Area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, Smooth Rock Falls
2 – James Bay and Hudson Bay region
1 – Area of Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Fauquier-Strickland
1 – Area of Hearst, Hornepayne
-Source: Porcupine Health Unit, May 12, 2021