Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported that there are only five new cases of COVID-19 in the area for Monday March 15.
PHSD also said there are now 243 active cases being actively monitored. It is a big drop of 48 cases from the 291 cases that were active on Sunday.
This means that since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have now been 1,016 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit. PHSD said 773 of those cases have been resolved locally.
As to where the new cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that six cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area and one case was decreased from the Manitoulin district.
With respect to possible causes of the new cases, PHSD reported six cases as "under investigation."
There was a one case decrease under the "No known epidemiological link" category.
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 355 total cases (three new cases).
Next highest number was 254 cases for the 19 and under age group (one new case).
The next highest group number was 222 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (unchanged).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group had only 117 cases total (one new case),
and people aged 80 and over were the lowest category with 65 cases (zero increase).
Also, there were three cases where the age was not specified.
The numbers may not completely correspond with the daily case count because PHSD does not always report changes on the day they occur.
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, 196 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern. This is a jump of 38 new cases suspected of being a variant.
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 two outbreaks, one on the Fourth Floor-South Tower involving two residents and another outbreak on the Sixth Floor-South Tower involving two staff members.
TEN COVID CASES AT HSN
HSN's COVID website page is also reporting 10 COVID-19 patients in hospital care, which includes two patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition, there are 13 other admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time. Two of those patients are also in the ICU at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1,268 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported nine new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.