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Five new COVID-19 cases reported by Public Health Sudbury & Districts

No new deaths, no cases linked to outbreaks says Sudbury's health unit
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As a new work week has started in Sudbury, the health unit is reporting five newly confirmed cases of COVID-19. All five cases are linked to the Greater Sudbury area. 

As far as possible causes, Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) said one case is travel-related, one case is linked to close contact of another confirmed case, one case has no known epidemiological link and two cases are categorized as information pending or missing. 

No outbreak cases were reported and no deaths were reported in Monday's update.  In recent days the health unit had reported several outbreak cases and three new deaths, all connected to a COVID-19 outbreak at the Amberwood Suites retirement home on Regent Street south in Sudbury.  

The latest update also revealed there have now been 395 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020. Of that number, 333 cases have been resolved. There were 62 active cases being monitored by PHSD. This is the same number of active cases that were on the roster Sunday, indicating that five more cases were resolved in the past 24 hours. 

Also today, Health Sciences North revealed there are 15 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the hospital with zero cases in the Intensive Care Unit. The HSN update page also lists an additional 10 patients under investigation for COVID, awaiting test results. One of those people is in the ICU and the other nine are being cared for in other units at the hospital. 

At the provincial level today (Monday Jan. 18, 2021), the Ontario government reported there were 2578 new confirmed cases in Ontario. 

The province also reported that 24 citizens died in the past 24 hours from the coronavirus.