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424 Active Cases, One New Death

The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is reporting an increase in the number of new coronavirus cases.

Health officials report one more death associated with the virus and 68 new cases, which puts the active case count up to 424.

Wednesday’s death marks the 39th passing of the pandemic thus far

  • 44 cases were obtained from someone else who had the virus
  • One case is tied to the Walford Retirement Home Outbreak
  • 11 cases have no known exposure
  • Nine case causes are pending

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre reports nine of the 41 patients that are being treated for the virus are in the intensive care unit.

In Ontario there are 1,508 new cases and 14 deaths.

  • Originally from southern Ontario, Jason found his way here and fell in love with the community and music scene of Thunder Bay over twenty years ago. In between various stints on radio, television and writing, Jason is a dad, a partner and (some would consider) a zoo keeper (seriously, he has a LOT of pets).

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