Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reported eight new cases of COVID-19 for today, Thursday April 29.
Public Health also said there are now 79 active cases being monitored by public health, a decrease of two since the day before.
Also, since the PHSD began tracking COVID-19 cases just over 13 months ago, there have been 1,929 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally (this includes the corrected information). PHSD also said 1,850 of those cases have now been resolved, an increase of 10 over the previous day.
With respect to where the newest COVID-19 cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that three cases were found to have occurred within Greater Sudbury, while five were in Sudbury District.
In terms of possible causes of the new and recent cases, PHSD reported one case was outbreak associated, while five were linked to close contact of a confirmed case. Zero cases were travel related, and two cases had no known epidemiological link.
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 629 total cases (an increase of three).
The next highest group number was 491 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (no change).
The next highest number was 443 cases for the 19 and under age group (an increase of five).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 276 cases total (no change), 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, 235,236 tests have been performed in the PHSD region as of Tuesday, April 27. This is an increase of 368 in the past 24 hours.
As for local vaccinations, PHSD reported a total of 78,388 vaccines given in the entire PHSD area as of April 29 at 4 p.m.
VARIANTS OF CONCERN
PHSD is also reporting there are now six cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus; no increase over Wednesday.
There are 781 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern; an increase of nine cases.
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 26 there are 22 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital. As reported on the HSN website, this included 10 COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition to this, there are 10 admitted patients "being tested" for COVID-19. None of those patients has been admitted to the ICU at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported 3,871 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 41 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.
