Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported five newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the area. This is a drop from the 13 new cases that were reported Tuesday and is the lowest daily count so far this week.
The new case count means there have been 482 confirmed cases in the local jurisdiction since COVID-19 case tracking began back in March of 2020.
PHSD also reported there are now 82 active cases being monitored at this time.
This is a decrease from the number of 86 active cases that were reported in the PHSD update on Tuesday. The health unit said it means 400 cases have been resolved since the pandemic case count began locally last March.
As for the geographic area the PHSD daily update page reported all five of the new cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury area.
With respect to the possible causes of those new cases, PHSD revealed three new cases are linked to close contact of a confirmed case. Two new cases were listed as information pending or missing.
At Health Sciences North, the daily hospital update page for today, Jan. 27, revealed there are seven confirmed COVID-19 patients at the hospital, with none being assigned to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There are an additional nine other admitted patients being investigated for the coronavirus. None of those nine is assigned to the ICU.
On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1,670 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 49 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.
