As the work week comes to an end, Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) is reporting only two new cases of COVID-19. This is the lowest daily total this week. The highest report was the 13 new cases reported on Tuesday that were attributed to an outbreak at Amberwood Suites retirement home.
PHSD said these additional cases indicate that there are now 70 active cases being monitored in the health unit’s jurisdiction, which includes Greater Sudbury, Sudbury District and Manitoulin Island. This also indicates that five previously active cases have been resolved in the past 24 hours.
This means that since daily case tracking began by the health unit back in March of 2020, there have been 385 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 315 of those cases listed as resolved.
It was also reported Friday that a new COVID-19 death had occurred, related to the outbreak at the Amberwood Suites retirement home on Regent Street. This is the first COVID-19 death this year in Sudbury and the third death that has occurred within the PHSD jurisdiction since the pandemic was declared in March 2020.
The daily update page provided by PHSD revealed that both of the new cases were attributed to the Greater Sudbury area. With respect to the cause of the infections, PHSD reports "information pending or missing" for both cases.
At the provincial level today (January 15, 2021) it was revealed there were 2998 new COVID-19 cases reported for all of Ontario. There were also 100 new COVID-19 deaths reported for Ontario.
