There are 52 COVID-19 patients at Health Sciences North and three of the patients are in the Intensive Care Unit.  

All across Ontario, there are 219 patients in ICUs.

Public Health Sudbury and Districts (PHSD) reported there are 136 new COVID-19 cases in the local health jurisdiction on Friday. No deaths were reported. PHSD said there are now 198 total deaths that have occurred since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020.

These numbers are for the past three days since Friday, since the health unit does not report statistics on weekends. 

PHSD also reported that 14,622 total accumulated cases have occurred in the Sudbury jurisdiction since the pandemic was declared in March of 2020. PHSD also reported that 14,200 of those cases have been resolved. This means there are currently 422 known active cases in the health unit area.

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 175 new cases were reported to have occurred in the Greater Sudbury area, 13 new cases in the rural Sudbury district and 10 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 5,204 total cases (An increase of 53 cases).

The next highest number was 3,873 for the 40-59 age group (An increase of 71).

There were also 2,626 cases for the 19 and under age group (An increase of 12).

Seniors in the 60 to 79 age group amounted to 1,988 cases total (An increase of 41). 

People aged 80 and over are currently the lowest category with 921 cases (An increase of 22).

In the Not Specified category, there were 10 cases (A decrease of one).  

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 421,181 total tests carried out locally since the pandemic began; an increase of 1,160 since testing carried out last week. 

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 81.6 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 eight active outbreaks as of April 22, including two new outbreaks at the hospital. 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 52 patients with confirmed COVID-19 at the hospital, the hospital website reported  Monday. Three of those COVID patients were in the intensive care unit. There were 11 other patients being investigated (tested) for COVID-19. None were in the ICU.  HSN also said there are still two news COVID-19 outbreaks at the hospital, as of April 20; North Tower sixth floor and North Tower fourth floor. 

On the provincial COVID-19 roster today, the Ontario government daily website reported 2.028 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases across the province. The province also reported 219 COVID patients are in intensive care.  Also today, the province reported two COVID-19 deaths.