Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reported seven new cases of COVID-19 for May 1.
Public Health also said there are now 77 active cases being monitored by public health, a decrease of 10 from the day before.
Also, since the PHSD began tracking COVID-19 cases just over 13 months ago, there have been 1,953 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally (this includes the corrected information from the April 28 report). PHSD also said 1,876 of those cases have now been resolved, an increase of 10 over the previous day. Twenty-seven people have died.
With respect to where the newest COVID-19 cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that six cases were found to have occurred within Greater Sudbury, while one was in Sudbury District.
In terms of possible causes of the new and recent cases, PHSD reported four cases were linked to close contact of a confirmed case. Two cases were travel related, and one case had no known epidemiological link. None were linked to an outbreak.
PHSD also reports general demographics each day about the people who are becoming infected.
Epidemiological data showed that the majority of local cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 636 total cases (an increase of one).
The next highest group number was 493 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (an increase of one).
The next highest number was 453 cases for the 19 and under age group (an increase of three).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 281 cases total (an increase of two), and people aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 90 cases (no change). There were also zero cases reported in the "unspecified category".
The numbers above may not completely correspond with the daily case count because PHSD does not always report changes on the day they occur.
In terms of COVID-19 testing, 235,604 tests have been performed in the PHSD region as of Wednesday, April 28. The numbers were not updated as of Saturday.
As for local vaccinations, PHSD reported a total of 78,791 vaccines given in the entire PHSD area as of April 29 at 4 p.m. Of those, 70,871 have received their first dose, while 7,920 are fully vaccinated. These data have not been updated since Thursday.
Variants of concern
PHSD is also reporting six cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus. There are 789 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern. These data are unchanged from Friday.
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, as of April 30, there are 20 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital. As reported on the HSN website, this included 11 COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition to this, there are 12 admitted patients "being tested" for COVID-19. None of those patients has been admitted to the ICU at this time.
The Ontario government daily website reported 3,369 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province yesterday. The province also reported 29 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours with 3,964 recoveries.