Public Health reports one new case of COVID-19 in Greater Sudbury
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Public Health Sudbury and Districts reported one new case of COVID-19 on Wednesday.
The new case is located in Greater Sudbury and is listed as travel-related on the health unit’s website.
Public Health is now monitoring 50 active cases in its service area, including 47 in Greater Sudbury and three in the Sudbury district.
One new case with a mutation profile consistent with a COVID-19 variant of concern was identified in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts.
There have been 1,153 cases confirmed or presumed to be variants of concern identified in the region.
Public Health has reported 2,392 cases of COVID-19 and 31 COVID-related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
There are currently five active COVID-19 outbreaks in Greater Sudbury.
These include outbreaks at R.L. Beattie Public School, St. Charles College, and Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School.
Additional outbreaks have been reported at the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Victoria Street Place and in Technica Mining employees at the Vale South Mine Project.
The health unit has performed 289,818 COVID-19 tests as of Sept. 22.
In partnership with First Nations and primary care partners, Public Health has administered 254,098 first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
In all, 137,092 people in the Sudbury area received their first dose of the vaccine, and 117,006 are fully vaccinated.
The latest provincial data shows that 85.3 per cent of Ontarians over the age of 12 have one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and nearly 79.4 per cent have two doses.
Ontario reported 463 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and seven more deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott said 332 of those new cases were in people who are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.
Elliott also said 299 people are hospitalized with the virus, with 187 of them in intensive care.
- with files from Canadian Press
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