Public Health Sudbury and District revealed Wednesday that there are two new cases of COVID-19 in the area. It was also reported there are now 37 cases being actively monitored. This is a decrease from the 41 active cases reported on Tuesday.
Since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have been 575 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit, with 538 of those cases being resolved locally.
Pinning down where the new cases occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that two cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area.
With respect to possible causes of these cases, PHSD reported two new cases were listed as information pending or missing.
At Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital, there are seven patients confirmed with COVID-19 for today, Feb. 17. According to the HSN daily update web page, one of those patients is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There are six additional admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time. One of the six is being treated in the ICU.
On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 847 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 10 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours. Both of those numbers are down from the numbers reported Tuesday.