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Jan 6, 2021 at 19:47
Through contact tracing, Algoma Public Health notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted by Algoma Public Health, or affected by recent public exposure notifications posted by APH, you are not considered a close contact.
Additionally, anyone who travelled on flight Air Canada AC 8330 flight from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and was a passenger in rows 3-9, or was a member of the flight crew that may have served these rows are considered close contacts, and should contact Algoma Public Health or their local public health unit.
Correction – “The flight number should be Air Canada flight AC 8325 (not AC 8330)”
Details of the confirmed cases:
| Case Number |
Exposure Category |
Status | Tested |
| Case #95 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Case #96 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 5, 2021 |
| Case #97 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #98 | Unknown | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #99 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #100 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #101 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #102 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #103 | Unknown | Self-isolating | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Case #104 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 5, 2021 |
Unknown exposure means the person did not have recent international travel or close contact with a known confirmed case. How the person acquired the virus is not known.
Close contact means the person acquired their infection through close contact with a known confirmed case. For example, living together with a case, or spending more than 15 minutes with a case while less than 2 metres apart are considered high-risk close contact exposures.
| Algoma Region | Any residents who have tested positive for COVID-19?
Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days. |
Any evidence of local community spread? (since August 2020 – Algoma’s second wave) |
| Central & East Algoma | Yes (5)
Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days. |
Yes |
| Elliot Lake & Area | Yes (less than 5) | Possible/Likely: evidence of community spread is present in other areas of Algoma and in neighbouring public health units |
| North Algoma | No | Possible/Likely: evidence of community spread is present in other areas of Algoma and in neighbouring public health units |
| Sault Ste. Marie & Area | Yes (97)
Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days. |
Yes |
| Updated: January 6, 2021 6:45 p.m. | ||
Sault Ste. Marie & Area includes: Batchewana First Nation, Garden River First Nation, Laird, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Prince, Sault Ste. Marie
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