As of Wednesday afternoon, the North Bay-Parry Sound Health Unit is reporting a total of six confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the district. Of the six, three of the cases have been resolved.
Five of the cases are in the Nipissing District with one from the Parry Sound District.
As of yesterday afternoon, 319 tests have been done with 159 returning as negative and results are pending on 148 tests.
Due to the volume of testing across the province, current turnaround time is 4 – 6 business days from when the specimen is received by the laboratory. There are currently four laboratories in Ontario processing COVID-19 tests.
1 Municipalities in the District of Nipissing served by the Health Unit include: North Bay, Mattawa, Township of Bonfield, Township of Calvin, Township of Chisholm, Township of East Ferris, Municipality of Mattawan, Township of Papineau-Cameron, the Municipality of West Nipissing, Nipissing Unorganized North part, Nipissing Unorganized South part, Parry Sound Unorganized Centre part, Parry Sound Unorganized East part, Dokis 9, Reserve, French River 13, Reserve, Henvey Inlet 2, Reserve, Magnetewan 1, Reserve, Naiscoutaing 17A, Reserve, Nipissing 10, Reserve, Parry Island First Nation, Shawanaga 17 and 17B Reserve
2 District of Parry Sound includes: Municipality of Callander, Township of Machar, Township of Nipissing, Municipality of Powassan, Village of South River, Village of Sundridge, Township of Armour, Village of Burk’s Falls, Township of Joly, Town of Kearney, Municipality of Magnetawan, Township of McMurrich/Monteith, Township of Perry, Township of Ryerson, Township of Strong, Township of The Archipelago, Township of Carling, Municipality of McDougall, Township of McKellar, Town of Parry Sound, Township of Seguin, Municipality of Whitestone.