Current number of active COVID-19 cases in northeastern Ontario

The number of active COVID-19 cases in northeastern Ontario as of Sept. 27/21 at 4:30 p.m. (CTV Northern Ontario)

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As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues, CTV News Northern Ontario is continuing to keep track of the number of active cases of COVID-19 in the northeast region. Check back often for daily updates on the number of new, active and resolved cases.

As of Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m., there are 87 active cases of COVID-19 in northeastern Ontario after 24 new infections were confirmed and 35 previous cases were resolved since Friday.

Novel coronavirus infections are reported by public health agencies for residents that live within the districts. The number of active cases comes from the total confirmed positive less cases that have been resolved, including deaths. In northeastern Ontario, there are five health units and here is the change in the number of cases in the last three days for each one of them:

Algoma Public Health  - 1 new, 1  resolved

North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit  - 3 new, 5 resolved

Public Health Sudbury & Districts  - 19 new in Greater Sudbury, 27 resolved

Porcupine Health Unit  - 1 new, 2 resolved

Timiskaming Health Unit - no change

Several COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared in the Sudbury area and are currently active:

• Adamsdale Public School
• Carl A. Nesbitt Public School
• Canadian Mental Health Association on Victora Street Place congregate living setting
• Technica Mining at Vale South Mine Project
• Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School
• St. Charles College
• R.L. Beattie Public School in Sudbury's South End

Sudbury health officials are warning of COVID-19 exposures at:

• R.G. Dow Pool in Copper Clif Sept. 23 between 6:25 and 7 p.m.
• Anyone inside the Garson Community Centre and Arena Sept. 21 between 6:30 and 8 p.m.
• Patrons that dined inside Fionn MacCool's on Sept. 19 between 6 and 8 p.m.
• East Side Mario's on Sept. 19 between 6 and 8:15 p.m.
• Patrons that dined inside Buzzy Brown's on Sept. 18 between 4:30 and 7 pm
• Patrons that dined inside Lot 88 Steakhouse & Bar on Sept. 18 from 8 to 10 p.m.
• Surplus Furniture and Mattress Warehouse at 670 Falconbridge Road on Sept. 7-9 and 11-15.
• Socal gathering in woods near Ecole secondaire Hanmer at 4800 Notre Dame Avenue on Sept. 10 from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
• Outdoor concert at the Grotto at 271 Van Horne Street on Sept. 12.
• GOVA route #102 on Sept. 9 from 5:30 to 5:45 p.m. departing from Shoppers Drug Mart at the New Sudbury Centre
• New Sudbury Centre at 1349 Lasalle Boulevard on Sept. 11 between 4:45 and 5:10 p.m.
• The Keg Steakhouse and Bar at 1396 Kingsway on Sept. 11 between 5:30 and 7 p.m.

Health officials are warning of high-risk exposures at two recent social gatherings in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts. One involves Pow Wow grounds at 352B Hwy 551 in M’Chigeeng on Sept. 5 between 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. and the other at a bush party in the woods near Ecole secondaire Hanmer, 4800 Notre Dame Avenue on Sept. 11 between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Here is the list of schools in northeastern Ontario that are reporting at least one case of COVID-19:

• Adamsdale Public School in Sudbury - 1 student
• Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School in Sudbury - 4 students
• Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Elementary School in Sudbury - 1 student
• Ecole elementaire catholique La Renaissance in Espanola - 1 student
• Ecole separee Sainte-Marie in Sudbury - 1 student
• Lasalle Elementary in Sudbury - 1 student
• Monck Public School in Bracebridge - 1 student
• Mother St. Bride School in North Bay – 1 student
• Parry Sound Public School in Parry Sound – 2 students
• R.L. Beattie Public School in Sudbury- 3 students
• St. Charles College Elementary in Sudbury – 1 student
• St. Charles College in Sudbury - 3 students
• St. Alexander Separate School in North Bay – 1 student
• St. Anne Separate School in Sudbury - 1 student
• St. Joseph-Scollard Hall Secondary School in North Bay – 1 student
• St. Basil Catholic School in Sault Ste. Marie – 2 students
• St. Mary's College Separate School in Sault Ste. Marie – 1 student
• St. Mary's French Immersion Catholic School in Sault Ste. Marie – 1 student

COVID-19 HOSPITALIZATIONS

As of 10:33 a.m. Sept. 27, there are 186 COVID-19-related hospitalizations in Ontario with 184 people in intensive care units across the province due to the disease. Of those in the ICU, 130 of those patients, 71 per cent, are on a ventilator. Most of the patients currently in an ICU with COVID-19 are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, representing 94 per cent. The remaining six per cent of those patients in the ICU with COVID-19 are fully vaccinated people.

Here in northeastern Ontario, there are currently no patients with COVID-19 at Health Sciences North, but four people have been tested and are awaiting their results.

The Algoma, Nipissing and Parry Sound districts all have zero COVID-related hospitalizations. Information on hospitalizations in the Cochrane District has not been made available.

Sudbury public health officials have been keeping track of the COVID-19 vaccination status of people who have been confirmed to have the disease since June 1.

Of the 300 COVID-19 infections confirmed since June 1 in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts, the majority of those cases, 86 per cent, involve people who were not fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Unvaccinated people make up 74 per cent of the cases since June 1, 12 per cent of those cases involve someone who has received one dose of the vaccine, while 14 per cent involve fully vaccinated people.

In the last three months, there have been zero hospitalizations among fully vaccinated residents in the Sudbury and Manitoulin areas. Of the eight COVID-19-related hospitalizations, 75 per cent of the cases involved unvaccinated patients, and two patients were partially vaccinated having had one of the two doses.

"Based on data from the last 14 days, the risk of contracting COVID-19 for unvaccinated residents of Sudbury and districts was 6.4 times the risk for fully vaccinated residents," Public Health Sudbury & Districts said in a weekly update on Thursday.

In the North Bay Parry Sound District region, there have been 241 COVID-19 cases reported since June 1 involving people eligible for the vaccine. Twenty three cases since June 1 involve children born after 2009 who are not eligible for the vaccine. Of those infections, 91 per cent were either unvaccinated or partially vaccinated while 9% were fully vaccinated. 

Algoma Public Health said there were 65 new COVID-19 cases in the district between July 1 and Sept. 21 and 76.9 per cent of them involved patients who were partially or unvaccinated. The remaining 23.1 per cent of new cases involved people who have been fully vaccinated.

Porcupine Health Unit told CTV News in an email it doesn't have the information available at this time.

CTV News is still waiting for a response from the Timiskaming Health Unit. This article will be updated as the information comes in.