Five new cases of COVID-19 have been reported by Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD).
This means there are now 27 active cases now being monitored. This is a drop from the 35 active cases reported on Monday.
Since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have been 546 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit, with 519 of those cases being resolved locally.
With respect to where the new case occurred,the PHSD daily update page reported that five cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area.
In terms of the possible causes, PHSD reported seven new cases as outbreak related, two cases as close contact of a confirmed case, two cases of no known epidemiological link and six cases listed as information pending or missing. The numbers reflect information provided from previously reported cases, but the health unit does not specify on which day the case causes were determined.
At Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital, there are eight patients confirmed with COVID-19 for Feb. 10. According to the HSN daily update web page, two of those patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The other six COVID patients are in other units. There are also 11 other admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 report today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1,072 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 41 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.