One COVID-related death, 42 new cases and 48 recoveries are being reported by the Porcupine Health Unit today (Feb. 2).
At Timmins and District Hospital, the number of patients admitted with COVID-19 remains at 27. Two of the admissions were for reasons related to the virus.
There are 29 patients who have been tested for COVID and are waiting for the results or who will be tested. The total number of hospitalizations in the region is not known because the health unit does not actively report the local data.
The health unit did not report where the person who died was living in the region. So far this year, there have been 10 COVID-related deaths in the region.
The recent local deaths have included one man in his 60s, three men and one woman in their 70s, two men and two women in their 80s and a man 90 years or older, according to provincial data. Six were related to an outbreak.
For today's new cases, 11 people are in Timmins, 18 are in the James and Hudson Bay area, two are in the area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls and Smooth Rock Falls, 10 are in Hearst and Hornepayne, and one is out of region.
To date, there have been 4,359 confirmed cases in the region. Of those, 3,928 are recovered and 41 people have died. There are 390 known active cases — 131 in Timmins, 52 in the area of Cochrane, Matheson, Iroquois Falls and Smooth Rock Falls, 29 in the Kapuskasking area, 73 in Hearst and Hornepayne, 104 in the James Bay area, and one out of region.
Due to changes in testing, case numbers are underestimated.
