No new confirmed COVID-19 cases or recoveries were reported in the Porcupine Health Unit region today.
It's now been 16 days since the last positive test. To date there have been 65 confirmed cases in the region. Of those, 56 are resolved and seven people have died. The health unit is folowing two known active cases of the virus.
Public Health Ontario reported 292 new COVID-19 cases today. The province has reported a total of 26,483 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, and of those 20,372 are considered recovered (76.9 per cent).
As testing opens up for anyone to be tested for COVID-19, Porcupine Health Unit's medical officer of health wants people to understand what a negative test does and doesn't mean. Read more from the city's health roundtable for the pandemic here.
Ontario has extended its emergency order, which prevents gatherings of more than five and restricts is permitted to be open, until at least June 9.
Timmins Mayor George Pirie says the local state of emergency will lift when the provincial one does. Read more from his update to council here.
A COVID-19 outbreak at Extendicare Timmins was declared over yesterday.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is currently engaged in discussions with Ontario and Quebec to extend military deployment in long-term care homes. Read the full story here.
The essential worker of the day is Sylvie Boychuk, a nurse at Timmins and District Hospital.
