Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported that there are 28 new cases of COVID-19 in the area. This is a significant drop from the 55 cases reported on Thursday.
PHSD also said there are now 232 active cases being monitored, a decrease of 31 from the day before.
Also, since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have now been 924 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit. PHSD said 692 of those cases have been resolved locally.
As to where the new cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that 27 cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury area. One new case was located in the Manitoulin district.
With respect to possible causes of the new cases, PHSD said 54 cases were reported as close contact of a confirmed case. Four cases were reported as related to outbreaks. Twelve cases were reported as no known epidemiological link.
These numbers do not correspond with the daily case count because PHSD chooses to report case causes at different times in an effort to preserve the privacy of individuals.
PHSD also reports general demographics each day to provide basic information on the people who are becoming infected. This shows that the majority of cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 314 total cases (six new cases).
The next highest number was 233 cases for the 19 and under age group (four new cases).
The next highest number after that was 195 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (nine new cases).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group had only 109 cases total (four new cases), and people aged 80 and over were the lowest category with 65 cases (three new cases) and six new cases where the age was not specified.
VARIANTS:
PHSD is also reporting there are still only three cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus.
This has not changed in several days. There are, however, 133 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern. This is an increase of 35 new cases. PHSD said additional time is required to genetically sequence the virus in a positive sample and confirm it as a COVID-19 variant of concern.
At Sudbury's Health Sciences North there are six confirmed COVID patients in the hospital, Friday March 12, 2021. According to the HSN website, there are no COVID patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There are 19 additional admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time. None of those patients is in the ICU at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1,371 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 18 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.