No new COVID-19 cases or recoveries were reported by the Porcupine Health Unit today.
To date, there have been 64 confirmed cases in the region. Of those, 49 are resolved and five people have died. The health unit is following 10 known active cases.
This week, four new cases of the virus were reported, which is double the week before when two cases were confirmed. This week, three new recoveries and one fatality — the fifth virus-related death in the Timmins area — were also reported.
Mandated testing on staff and residents at long-term care homes is ongoing.
Two new institutional outbreaks were declared this week at the Golden Manor in Timmins and South Centennial Manor in Iroquois Falls after a resident at each facility tested positive.
The health unit is aware of 3,112 tests being done locally, which is an increase of 216 from the last report. There are 346 tests under investigation. In the past week, 948 tests have been done locally. That is an increase over the week prior when 482 tests were done.
The regular testing tally doesn't include those being done as part of the mandated surveillance at long-term care homes.
Yesterday (May 9), the health unit reported 1,377 tests had been done at eight of the 10 long-term care homes in the region. That includes 610 residents and 767 employees. In addition to that, 37 employees at five of the six emergency child care centres have been tested.
For the local cases, 40 have been in Timmins. Of those, 28 cases are resolved and four people have died. There have been 23 cases in the area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Smooth Rock Falls. Of those, 20 are resolved and one person has died. There has been one case in the area of Kapuskasing, Opasatika, Val Rita-Harty, Moonbeam, and Fauquier-Strickland and it is resolved.
Ontario's daily COVID-19 cases dipped below 300 for the first time since March 31, with 294 lab-confirmed cases being reported. There have now been 20,238 cases reported by the province’s public health agency, and of those 14,772 are recorded as recovered (73 per cent) and 1,634 people have died (8.1 per cent).
Kettle Lakes Provincial Park and Ivanhoe Lake Provincial Park will be open for limited day use next week. Read more on that here.
The essential worker of the day is Lia Fontana, the director of clinical services at Timmins and District Hospital.
