Public Health Sudbury and Districts reported Friday that there are three new cases of COVID-19 in the area.
Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) said there are now 35 cases being actively monitored. Since the pandemic was declared almost a year ago, there have been 559 total COVID-19 cases reported to the Sudbury health unit, with 524 of those cases being resolved locally.
The daily update also reported one new death, which is the death originally reported late Thursday in connection with the outbreak at Health Sciences North.
With respect to where the cases occurred,the PHSD daily update page reported that three cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area.
In terms of possible causes of the new cases, PHSD reported three new cases linked to outbreak. No other case causes were mentioned.
At Sudbury's Health Sciences North hospital, there are seven patients confirmed with COVID-19 for today February 12, 2021. According to the HSN daily update web page, two of those patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). There are eight additional admitted patients currently being investigated for COVID-19 at this time.
On the provincial COVID-19 report today, the Ontario government daily website reported there were 1076 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 18 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.
