There are now 43 cases in the Sudbury area, 11,184 in Ontario and 35,708 in Canada

There were two outbreaks of COVID-19 reported in Northern Ontario on Sunday, one at a Sudbury long-term care home and another at the Timmins and District Hospital.

These cases have contributed to a regional total of 199, of which four have died and 119 are reported to have recovered.

District health units in the region have reported 10 more cases of the virus since Saturday, along with five recoveries and one death following the testing of 811 individuals.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD), Thunder Bay Regional Health Unit (TBHU), Northwestern District Health Unit, and North Bay Parry Sound Regional District Health Unit have each reported two new cases since the last report from Sudbury.com. The Porcupine District Health Unit (PDHU) and Timiskaming District Health Unit have each reported one.

Of the recoveries, three have been reported by the PHSD and another by the TBHU.

The most recent passing related to COVID-19 was reported by the PDHU on Sunday.

PHSD have confirmed that the case reported at the St. Joseph's Villa long-term is included in this total but would not specify the individual's gender, age, date of testing or how they are believed to have contracted the virus.

Ontario reported the greatest increase in testing as well as the greatest increase in cases to date Sunday, to reach a total of 156,097 and 10,578 respectively.

An additional 8,743 tests have been conducted in the province since that time, resulting in the diagnosis of 11,184 cases to date, of which 5,515 have recovered and 584 have died.

Of these cases 58.3 per cent have been reported by the Greater Toronto Area public health unit.

There are currently 35,708 confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in Canada as of April 20 at 1:40 p.m., contributing to a global total of 2,319,066.