Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported one new case of COVID-19 in its service area for Tuesday.
This means there are now 35 active cases now being monitored. This is a drop from the 41 active cases reported on Monday.
Since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have been 541 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit, with 506 of those cases being resolved locally.
With respect to where the new case occurred,the PHSD daily update page reported that one case was found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area.
In terms of the possible cause, PHSD reported one new case listed as information pending or missing.
At Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital, there are eight patients confirmed with COVID-19 for today, Tuesday February 9, 2021. According to the HSN daily update web page, two of those patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The other six COVID patients are in other units. There are also eight other admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 report today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1,022 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province.
Also today, the province reported 17 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.