In today's COVID summary, there were 31 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported at Sudbury's Health Sciences North (HSN) hospital today, with one of those patients being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Also, no deaths were reported Friday, but the total accumulated death count in the Sudbury health jurisdiction is now 132 in the past 25 months.
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 Friday that 144 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 two days since the health unit does not normally report cases on Thursdays.
PHSD also reported that 13,557 total accumulated cases have occurred in the Sudbury jurisdiction since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020. PHSD also reported that 13,141 of those cases have been resolved. This means there are currently 416 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 120 new cases were reported to have occurred in the Greater Sudbury area, 17 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 4,873 total cases (An increase of 41 cases).
The next highest number was 3,525 for the 40-59 age group (An increase of 53).
There were also 2,538 cases for the 19 and under age group (An increase of 11).
Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 1,794 cases total (An increase of 29).
People aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 817 cases (An increase of 10).
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 415,311 total tests carried out locally since the pandemic began; an increase of 531 new tests since 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 81.5 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 31 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital, the hospital website reported. Four of those COVID patients were in the intensive care unit. There were six other patients being investigated (tested) for COVID-19. None of those patients were in the ICU. HSN's webpage reported there are no longer any COVID outbreaks at the hospital.
On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported 4,295 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. The province also reported 166 COVID patients are in intensive care. Also today, the province reported six COVID-19 deaths.
