Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) has reported there are only 30 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and one new death. There are also two active outbreaks in Greater Sudbury, one of them new.
PHSD reported that 16,055 total accumulated cases have occurred in the Sudbury jurisdiction since the pandemic began. PHSD also reported that 15,974 of those cases have been resolved in the same time period. PHSD said this means there are currently 81 known active cases in the health unit area.
Note: The accuracy of new cases and known cases cannot be confirmed each day because COVID-19 testing is no longer being done for all suspected cases that occur in the community.
More complete details are included on the daily COVID-19 public health summary.
With respect to the possible locations of the newly reported cases, PHSD said 25 new cases were reported to have occurred in the Greater Sudbury area, three new cases were assigned to the rural Sudbury district and two 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 5,583 total cases (An increase of eight cases).
The next highest number was 4,251 for the 40-59 age group (An increase of four).
There were also 2,727 cases for the 19 and under age group (Increase of two).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 2,358 cases total (An increase of 11).
People aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 1,127 cases (An increase of five cases).
In the Not Specified category, there were nine 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 436,314 total tests carried out locally since the pandemic began; an increase of 642 since testing was last carried out and reported on Wednesday.
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 81.9 per cent of all people in the PHSD area.
The Sudbury health unit has reported a declining number of outbreaks in the city at several long-term care homes and congregate living homes in the city. There are two active COVID outbreaks as of June 17 in the Sudbury health district.
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 14 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital, the hospital website reported Wednesday. No COVID patients are in the intensive care unit. There were 11 other patients being investigated (tested) for COVID-19. None were in the ICU.
