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Public Health Sudbury reports five new cases of COVID-19 for June 12

With four other cases having resolved, there 20 active cases being monitored by local health officials
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 Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reports five new cases of COVID-19 for today, June 12. 

With four more people having recovered, PHSD said there are now 20 active cases being monitored by public health officials.**  

Also, since the PHSD began tracking COVID-19 cases 16 months ago, there have been 2,118 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally. PHSD also said 2,098 of those cases have now been resolved.

With respect to where the newest COVID-19 cases might have occurred, the PHSD daily update page reported that three cases were found in the Greater Sudbury area and two cases were found in the rural Sudbury District.

In terms of possible causes of the new and recent cases, PHSD reported three cases were linked to close contact with confirmed cases, one had no known epidemiological link and one case remains under investigation.

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 690 total cases (an increase of one).

The next highest group number was 542 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (an increase of two).

The next highest number was 491 cases for the 19 and under age group (an increase of one).

Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 300 cases total (an increase of one), and people aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 94 cases (no change). 

There were also no 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.

With respect to COVID-19 testing, 254,919 tests have been performed in the PHSD region as of June 12, an increase of 261 since the last PHSD test report (this metric was not updated Saturday). 

As for local vaccinations, PHSD reported a total of 136,782 vaccines given in the entire PHSD area as of June 11 at 4 p.m. Of those, 109,907 people have received their first dose, while 26,875 are fully vaccinated. In terms of wasted doses, PHSD reports 147 doses wasted, or 0.11 per cent of the total. Public Health Sudbury has received 142,060 total doses as of June 11.

PHSD is also reporting six cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus, a number that has stayed mostly static. There are 934 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern, unchanged over 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.

There are no confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19 declared in the PHSD region.

Also, at Sudbury's Health Sciences North, as of June 11 at noon, there are three patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital. As reported on the HSN website, this included two COVID-19 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). In addition to this, there are four 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 502 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 15 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.

**A typo in this story has been corrected. The story originally said there was one active case. This was incorrect.


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