At the halfway point through July, Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) is reporting there have been 67 confirmed cases of COVID-19 within its jurisdiction. Based on provincial statistics, the cumulative case count is one of the lowest in the province.
Based on population for the Sudbury health region, the stats going back to March 1 show the cumulative COVID rate per 100,000 population is 33.7.
By comparison, Thunder Bay District Health Unit has reported 92 cases which resulted in a cumulative COVID rate of 47.9 per 100,000 population.
Porcupine Health Unit (Timmins, Cochrane District) has reported 68 cases resulting in a cumulative COVID rate of 81.5 per 100,000 persons, which is the highest in Northern Ontario.
The Timiskaming Health Unit reported only 18 cases, but based on population the cumulative rate is 55.1 per 100,000 population. The Northwestern Health Unit (Kenora, Red Lake, Sioux Lookout) reported 42 cases with a cumulative COVID case rate of 47.9 per 100,000.
Rounding out the rest of Northern Ontario, Algoma and North Bay-Parry Sound had 25 cases and 35 cases resulting in cumulative cases rates of 21 and 27 respectively. The Algoma case rate is the lowest in Ontario
Around the province, Toronto reported the most cases at 12,076 and a cumulative rate of 440, the highest in Ontario. Other areas included the Waterloo health region with 1,333 cases and a cumulative case rate of 228 per 100K population. Haldimand-Norfolk reported 432 COVID cases with a case rate of 387 per 100K population.
Ottawa Public Health reported 2167 COVID cases with a case rate of 205 per 100K population.
In that same time period of March through to mid-July, Ontario reported 2,723 deaths attributed to COVID. Sudbury reported two deaths.
Getting back to the Sudbury health unit statistics, documents show the highest number of active cases took place in the last week of March and opening days of April. In one three-day period, there were 15 news cases reported. In the second week of April, there was another spike with six new cases. Things settled down for several days and then there was another spike of six new cases in the last week of April.
Also, for the 67 cases reported in Sudbury, 38 were female, 25 were male and in four cases, gender was not specified. By age groups two persons were 80 or older, four persons were 19 or younger, 18 persons were in the 60-79 age group, 19 persons were in the 20-39 age group and 24 persons were in the 40-59 age group.
Note: Information for this news story was extracted from the Ontario Ministry of Health integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) database, as of 4 p.m. onJuly 14, 2020.
