Sudbury's health unit is reporting 20 new cases of COVID-19 for March 25. Public Health also said there are now 319 active cases being monitored.
Also, since the health unit began tracking COVID-19 cases just over one year ago, there have now been 1303 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally.
PHSD also said 984 of those cases have been resolved locally.
With respect to where the new cases might have occurred, the Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) daily update page reported that 19 cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area. One additional case was reported to have occurred in the wider Sudbury district.
With respect to possible causes of the new cases, PHSD reported nine new cases as close contact of a confirmed case. Five new cases were associated with an outbreak, one new case had no known epidemiological link and five additional cases are listed as under investigation.
PHSD also reports general demographics each day about the people who are becoming infected.
This shows that the majority of cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 452 total cases (Six new cases).
The next highest group number was 312 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (Five new cases).
Next highest number was 300 cases for the 19 and under age group (Five new cases).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group had only 164 cases total (Nine new cases), and people aged 80 and over were the lowest category with 71 cases (Two new cases).
The numbers above 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 five cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus, no increase there.
There are however, 348 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern, an increase of 25 over the number reported for Tuesday.
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 number of COVID-19 cases has increased by one. As reported by HSN at noon today, Thursday March 25, there were 21 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the hospital. According to the HSN website, this included nine COVID patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
There are 28 additional admitted patients currently being "investigated" for COVID-19, and awaiting test results. None of those patients are in the ICU at this time.
The hospital is also coping with two outbreaks, one on the fourth floor South Tower and one outbreak is on the seventh floor - North Tower. The outbreak that occurred on the sixth floor was declared over, on Wednesday.
On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 2380 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 17 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.