In today's COVID summary, there were 40 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Sudbury's Health Sciences North (HSN) hospital as of today, with one of those patients being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
No deaths were reported Monday, but the total accumulated death count in the Sudbury health jurisdiction is now 131 in the past 25 months, according to the health unit website, but that number hasn’t changed since the April 6 report and two deaths have been logged since that time.
There are also nine active outbreaks of COVID declared at local long-term care homes and congregate settings according to Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD). There are no more active outbreaks at Health Sciences North.
PHSD also reported Monday that 168 new cases of COVID have been determined. PHSD said the actual number might be higher since public COVID testing is no longer provided for free by the health unit.
This count takes in new cases for the past three days since the health unit does not normally report cases on weekends.
PHSD also reported that 13,725 total accumulated cases have occurred in the Sudbury jurisdiction since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020. PHSD also reported that 13,557 of those cases have been resolved. This means there are currently 412 known active cases in the health unit area.
All across Ontario today there are 168 active COVID-19 cases in Intensive Care Units. More complete details are included on the daily COVID-19 public health summary.
With respect to the possible locations of the new cases, PHSD said 154 new cases were reported to have occurred in the Greater Sudbury area, seven new cases in the rural Sudbury district and seven new cases for the Manitoulin district.
PHSD also reported general demographics each day about the age groups for people who are becoming infected.
Epidemiological data showed that the majority of local cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 4,926 total cases (An increase of 53 cases).
The next highest number was 3,577 for the 40-59 age group (An increase of 52).
There were also 2,556 cases for the 19 and under age group (An increase of 18).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 1,825 cases total (An increase of 29).
People aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 831 cases (An increase of 14).
In the Not Specified category, there were 10 cases (No change).
Note: The numbers above might not correspond to other numbers being reported because the health unit does not report fresh numbers daily, as they happen. Some of the numbers are delayed.
With respect to COVID-19 testing, PHSD said there have been 416, 575 total tests carried out locally since the pandemic began; an increase of 1,264 new tests since Friday.
With respect to vaccination numbers, PHSD is now reporting percentages of people vaccinated rather than doses given. The percentage of area residents who are now fully vaccinated translates to 81.5 per cent of all people in the PHSD area.
The Sudbury health unit is reporting a number of outbreaks in the city at several long-term care homes and congregate living homes in the city. There are nine active outbreaks as of April 8. More details can be found on the daily COVID summary page. Just scroll to the bottom of the summary page to COVID-19 Outbreaks. It also includes locations where outbreaks have been declared over.
Also, at Sudbury's Health Sciences North, there were 40 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital, the public health website reported Monday. Four of those COVID patients were in the intensive care unit. There were 31 other patients being investigated (tested) for COVID-19. None of those patients was in the ICU.
On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported 2,401 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. The province also reported 184 COVID patients are in intensive care. Also today, the province reported three COVID-19 deaths.
