Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported 23 new cases of COVID-19 in the area for March 22.
PHSD also said there are now 269 active cases being actively monitored, an increase of four over Sunday.
This means that since the health unit began tracking COVID-19 cases just over one year ago, there have now been 1,213 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally.
PHSD also said 944 of those cases had been resolved.
With respect to where the new cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that 21 cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area. An additional two cases occurred in the wider rural Sudbury district.
With respect to possible causes of the new cases, PHSD reported 23 cases 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 421 total cases (Five new cases).
The next highest group number was 287 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (six new cases).
Next highest number was 281 cases for the 19 and under age group (four new cases).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group had only 149 cases total (five new cases),
and people aged 80 and over were the lowest category with 68 cases (no increase) and six cases where the age was not specified (two of those are new cases).
The numbers may not completely correspond with the daily case count because PHSD does not always report changes on the day they occur.
Variants of concern
PHSD is also reporting there are still only three cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus.
This hasn't changed in many days. There are, however, 291 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern, an increase of 30 over the number reported for Sunday.
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 dropped from Friday. As reported at noon today, March 22, there are 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the hospital. According to the HSN website, this included six COVID patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
There are nine additional admitted patients currently being "investigated" for COVID-19. One of those patients is in the ICU at this time.
The hospital is also coping with three distinct outbreaks, one on the fourth floor, one on the sixth floor, both in the South Tower and one on the seventh floor, North Tower.
Accordingly, the hospital has imposed new visitor restrictions, but hospital services are continuing.
On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1699 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported only three new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.
