Public Health Sudbury and Districts reported Friday that four new COVID-related deaths have occurred. This puts the total number of local COVID-19 deaths at 99 that have been recorded since the outbreak began in March of 2020.
Also, Sudbury's Health Sciences North (HSN) reported there are now 47 active COVID-19 patients in the hospital, with seven of them in the Intensive Care Unit. There are 195 new COVID cases in the community, said Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) on Friday. In Ontario today there are 393 active COVID-19 cases in Intensive Care Units.
This report includes numbers for two days — Thursday and Friday. Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) no longer reports daily COVID case counts on weekends or on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The total number of COVID cases locally has reached 10,305 in the past 23 months. The number of resolved cases in that same time period is 9,688, which means there are currently 617 active cases. More complete details are included on the daily COVID-19 public health summary.
As for the possible locations of the new cases, PHSD said 169 new cases were reported to have occurred in the Greater Sudbury area, 12 new cases in the rural Sudbury district and 14 new cases for the Manitoulin district.
PHSD also reported general demographics each day about the age groups for people who are becoming infected.
Epidemiological data showed that the majority of local cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 3,762 total cases (An increase of 83 cases).
The next highest number was 2,537 for the 40-59 age group (An increase of 45).
There were also 2,127 cases for the 19 and under age group (An increase of 25).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 1,277 cases total (An increase of 31).
People aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 591 cases (An increase of 11).
In the Not Specified category, there were 11 cases. No change since Monday.
Note: The numbers above might not correspond to other numbers being reported because the health unit does not report fresh numbers daily, as they happen. Some of the numbers are delayed.
With respect to COVID-19 testing, PHSD said there have been 389,418 total tests carried out locally since the pandemic began; an increase of 1,457 new tests since Monday's report.
With respect to vaccination numbers, PHSD is now reporting percentages of people vaccinated rather than doses given. The percentage of area residents who are now fully vaccinated translates to 80.1 per cent of all people in the PHSD area.
The Sudbury health unit is reporting a number outbreaks in the city at several long-term care homes and congregate living homes in the city. Several outbreaks at Health Sciences North have been declared as over. More details can be found on the daily COVID summary page. Just scroll to the bottom of the summary page to COVID-19 Outbreaks. It also includes locations where outbreaks have been declared over.
Also, at Sudbury's Health Sciences North, there were 47 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital, the hospital website reported. Seven of those COVID patients were in the intensive care unit. There were 11 other patients being investigated (tested) for COVID-19. None of those 11 patients was in the ICU. HSN also reported there was only one outbreak at the hospital in the Medical Device Reprocessing unit.
On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported 3,907 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. This includes 393 COVID patients in intensive care. Also today, the province reported 50 new COVID-19 deaths.