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Sudbury Public Health reports 7 new cases of COVID-19 for Monday April 19

Public health also reports 171 active COVID-19 cases are being monitored today
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Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reports seven new cases of COVID-19 for today, Friday April 16. (CDC/Pexels)

Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reports seven new cases of COVID-19 for Monday, April 19. 

Public Health also said there are now 171 active cases being monitored.  

Also, since the PHSD began tracking COVID-19 cases just over one year ago, there have been 1,845 total COVID-19 cases confirmed locally.   PHSD also said 1674 of those cases have been resolved.  

 With respect to where the newest COVID-19 cases might have occurred, the Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) daily update page reported that seven cases were found to have occurred within the Greater Sudbury Area.   

In terms of possible causes of the new cases, PHSD reported zero cases associated with outbreak, five new cases linked to close contact of a confirmed case, two cases that are travel related, one case with no known epidemiological link and one case under investigation. 

PHSD also reports general demographics each day about the people who are becoming infected.

Epidemiological data showed that the majority of local cases are persons in the 20 to 39 age category with 605 total cases (an increase of three ).

The next highest group number was 474 cases for the 40 to 59 age group (an increase of two).

The next highest number was 418 cases for the 19 and under age group (an increase of one).

Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 263 cases total (an increase of one), and people aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 85 cases (no increase). There were also zero cases reported in the "unspecified category".

The numbers above may not completely correspond with the daily case count because PHSD does not always report changes on the day they occur.

In terms of COVID-19 testing, 229,171 tests have been performed in the PHSD region as of today, an increase of 2738. 

As for local vaccinations, PHSD reported a total of 64,882 vaccines given in the entire PHSD area as of April 19 at 4 p.m.  

VARIANTS OF CONCERN

PHSD is also reporting there are still five cases of "confirmed" variants of the COVID-19 virus, with no increase after several days.  

There are, however, 650 cases that are "screened positive" for variants of concern, an increase of 27 cases over the number reported on Sunday.

PHSD said additional time is required to genetically-sequence the virus in a positive sample and confirm it as a COVID-19 variant of concern. 

In terms of local outbreaks, two were reported over the weekend. One outbreak was reported at a “private daycare” on Saturday and also at a venue only identified as TSYS.  No other information was provided. 

At Sudbury's Health Sciences North, as of April 13 there are 21 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the hospital. As reported on the HSN website, this included three COVID patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). 

There are an additional seven admitted patients currently being "investigated" for COVID-19, and awaiting test results. There are none of those patients being investigated that is in the ICU at this time.

On the provincial COVID-19 register today, the Ontario government daily website reported 4,447 new confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. Also today, the province reported 19 new deaths had occurred in the previous 24 hours.


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