An Ontario government website has provided age and gender information on the most recent positive COVID-19 cases within the jurisdiction of the Public Health Sudbury and Districts.
PHSD stopped revealing age and gender information earlier this year, suggesting that the information could somehow compromise the privacy of the individuals listed in their regular COVID-19 case counts.
Of all the cases reported since March 1, 2020, the website is showing 46 cases not yet resolved by the Sudbury health unit. The majority of the cases involved persons in the 20 to 29 age group and were tested in the past week or so.
Seven of those cases involved persons under the age of 20; two are male, five are female.
The website revealed there are also four older cases, all males; three in their sixties and one in his eighties.
Of the 35 unresolved cases of persons in their twenties, 25 are male, nine are female and one person's gender was "unspecified".
Also, of those 35 cases in their twenties, most were listed as Close Contact cases, meaning the primary cause of their infection is believed to have resulted from close contact with another person who was already positive for COVID.
Six of the cases were identified as Missing Information, meaning that health unit trackers were not able to identify how the person contracted the disease.
One case of a person in their twenties was a male whose cause was listed as Outbreak Related. No other information was available at this time.
