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Morning News – January 17th

Weather:

Clearing this morning. Wind northeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light near noon. High minus 8. Wind chill minus 23 this morning and minus 13 this afternoon. UV index 1 or low.
Tonight – Partly cloudy. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h after midnight. Low minus 16. Wind chill minus 14 this evening and minus 25 overnight.

 

Status of COVID-19 cases in Algoma

Tested (1)  Confirmed
cases (2)		 Active
cases		 Currently

hospitalized

 Resolved
cases (3)		 Deceased
78,678 140 35 ()* 1 105 0
Updated: January 14, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

 

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(1) That Algoma Public Health is aware of.

(2) Algoma residents who have confirmed COVID-19 infection.

*The number in brackets are active cases in non-Algoma residents who are temporarily in Algoma.  These cases are not counted as part of Algoma’s confirmed case count.  APH conducts contact tracing and monitoring of self-isolation for all cases within Algoma.

(3) Patient tested positive but is resolved according to current public health criteria. This number includes any persons who are deceased.

  • These data sets are preliminary and subject to change, pending further review.
  • Confirmed positives will be reported as soon as publicly available.

News Tidbits:

The area around Greater Sudbury rumbled after two seismic events took place at Vale’s Creighton Mine. A media release stated, “Last night three seismic events occurred at Creighton Mine between 9:00 and 10:30 pm measuring between 2.6 and 3.7 in magnitude that were felt in the community. Employees were all accounted for and brought safely to surface. Day shift was cancelled at Creighton Mine today as we initiate our normal seismic management protocols.” Natural Resources Canada has confirmed that these events were mining related. The first seismic event was around 9:10 p.m at 3.2, with the second seismic event around 10:20 p.m. at 3.7.

 

Creighton Mine is also the home of SNOLAB, one of the world’s deepest underground physics laboratories. SNOLAB is 2km underground. If one is interested, a Virtual Tour is available on the SNOLAB website (link). For the many residents of Wawa who have worked underground, or have had family that worked underground are quite familiar with the dust, darkness, grimy air… SNOLAB is phenomenally clean! Check it out, this is an incredible Canadian achievement with this renowned lab doing research into sub-atomic physics, largely neutrino and dark matter physics in the deepest clean room facility in the world.

 

 

The 1,000-foot Walter J. McCarthy Jr. is the last freighter to clear the locks at Sault Ste. Marie. The locks are now closed for winter maintenance and will reopen March 25th. The locks are closed, and the water removed so that maintenance can be done. The MacArthur Lock is now 77 years old, and the Poe Lock is 52. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District has been operating and maintaining these locks which lock up and lock down vessels 21 feet since 1881. Mike Rowe did an episode on Dirty Jobs (Season 5 Episode 17),  on the winter maintenance in 2009 that gave a great insight into the workings of the locks.

 

 

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