Fourteen new COVID-19 cases are being reported by the Porcupine Health Unit today.
Since the health unit's last update on Friday, there have been 100 recoveries.
Six of the new cases are in Timmins and eight are in the James and Hudson Bay region.
The exposure of 11 cases is under investigation, two people are the contacts of a case, and one case is related to an outbreak.
The Porcupine Health Unit has the highest weekly case rate in Ontario.
The weekly case rate (from May 15 to May 21) for the Porcupine Health Unit is 258.9 cases per 100,000 population. Peel Region’s rate is 186 cases per 100,000 population for the same time period. Toronto Public Health’s rate is 114.2 cases per 100,000 people.
In the Porcupine Health Unit region there have been 1,165 confirmed cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic. Of those, 809 are recovered and 26 people have died. There are a record 330 known active cases in the region. The health unit did not provide a breakdown of where the active cases are located in today's update.
So far, 42,690 people in the region have been vaccinated, which is an increase of 3,236 since the last report Friday. There have been 47,314 doses of the vaccine administered.
Public Health Ontario provides a breakdown of the cases, age range, and hospitalizations over the past 14 days, with a three-day lag from the time of data extraction.
The breakdown for recent cases in the Porcupine Health Unit region is:
- Zero to nine years, 49 cases. No hospitalizations.
- 10 to 19 years, 47 cases. One hospitalization.
- 20 to 29 years, 96 cases. Two hospitalizations.
- 30 to 39 years, 72 cases. Five hospitalizations.
- 40 to 49 years, 43 cases. Three hospitalizations.
- 50 to 59 years, 37 cases. Five hospitalizations.
- 60 to 69 years, 14 cases. One hospitalization.
- 70 to 79 years, four cases. No hospitalizations.
- 80 to 89 years, three cases. No hospitalizations.
- 90 plus years, one case. No hospitalizations.
There are COVID-19 assessment centres in Timmins, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Matheson, Kapuskasing, Smooth Rock Falls, Hearst, and Hornepayne, as well as communities on the James Bay coast.
The Porcupine Health Unit COVID-19 information line can be reached at 705-360-4819 or 1-800-461-1818.
There is a provincial shutdown and stay-at-home order in effect until at least June 2.
