For the 17th-straight day there are no new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Porcupine Health Unit region.
No new recoveries were reproted today either.
To date, there have been 65 confirmed cases of the virus in the region. Of those, 56 are resolved and seven people have died. The health unit is following two known cases of the virus.
Public Health Ontario is reported 383 new lab-confirmed cases today. There have been 26,866 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Ontario. In total, 20,673 people are reported recovered (76.9 per cent) and 2,189 people have died (8.1 per cent).
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, the Mushkegowuk Council youth department was looking for ways to stay engaged with local communities. The group is looking for submissions about the traditional spring goose hunt to document in an upcoming book. Read the full story here.
Timmins and District Hospital has put a call out for homemade mask donations that will be given to people attending the hospital to use.
Lake Shore Gold has added $20,000 to the Timmins Chamber's Small Business PPE Support Grant. Find out more about it here.
Science North has cancelled its summer science camp in Timmins and other northeastern Ontario communities, but a virtual program is being offered. Read more about it here.
As COVID-19 keeps post-secondary students out of the classroom, Contact North is seeing increased demand for online learning, and that’s only expected to grow. Read the full story here.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the extension of the Incident Management System Long-Term Care Table to deal with ongoing COVID-19 infection in long-term care homes.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling for a global response to heal the economic damage of COVID-19.
The essential worker of the day is Tina Green, an RPN at Timmins and District Hospital.
