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Algoma Public Health is reporting 6 (six) new cases of COVID-19. Through contact tracing, Algoma Public Health notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted by Algoma Public Health, you are not considered a close contact.
Last night, New Year’s Eve, Algoma Public Health declared an outbreak at Extendicare Maple View, following confirmation of COVID-19 in two staff members. These two cases are part of the five that had been declared a short time earlier.
Details of cases 71-76:
| Case Number |
Exposure Category |
Status | Tested |
| Case #71 | Unknown | Self-isolating | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Case #72 | Unknown | Self-isolating | Dec 27, 2020 |
| Case #73 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Case #74 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Case #75 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 1, 2021 |
| Case #76 | Close contact | Self-isolating | Jan 1, 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.
| Tested |
Confirmed cases |
Active cases |
Resolved cases |
Deceased |
| 71,731 | 76 | 14 ()* | 62 | 0 |
| Updated: January 1, 2021, 7:00 p.m. | ||||
| 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 (less than 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 (70)
Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days. |
Yes |
| Updated: January 1, 2021 7:00 p.m. | ||
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