Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported that there are 49 new cases of COVID-19 in the area for Saturday March 14.
PHSD also said there are now 266 active cases being actively monitored.
Also, since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have now been 973 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit. PHSD said 707 of those cases have been resolved locally.
As to where the new cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that 43 cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area, five cases in the wider rural area of the Sudbury District and one case was reported from the Manitoulin District.
With respect to possible causes of these new cases, PHSD reported 31 cases as "under investigation."
Seven cases were reported as related to outbreaks. Another seven cases were reported as close contact of a confirmed case.
Four cases were described as no known epidemiological link
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 334 total cases (20 new cases).
Next highest number was 246 cases for the 19 and under age group (13 new cases).
The next highest number was 211 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (16 new cases).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group had only 114 cases total (Five new cases), and people aged 80 and over were the lowest category with 65 cases (zero increase) and 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 hasn't changed in several days. There are however, 152 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern. 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, the information for Saturday has not been updated yet. HSN did reveal late Friday there is an COVID outbreak confined to Hallway-G, Sixth Floor, South Tower. There were 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 1468 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 11 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.