{"id":40898,"date":"2021-01-07T19:24:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=40898"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T00:25:20","slug":"6-new-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-105-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/6-new-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-105-110\/","title":{"rendered":"6 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (#105 &#8211; #110)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Jan 7, 2021 at 19:24<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Algoma Public Health is reporting 6 (six) new cases of COVID-19. All cases are from Sault Ste. Marie and area.<\/p>\n<p>Through contact tracing, Algoma Public Health notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted by Algoma Public Health, or affected by recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.algomapublichealth.com\/news\/high-risk-covid-19-exposure-related-to-new-year-s-eve-gathering\/\">public exposure notifications<\/a> posted by APH, you are not considered a close contact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details of the confirmed cases:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table style=\"height: 345px;\" border=\"1\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Case<br \/>\nNumber<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Exposure<br \/>\nCategory<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Status<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Tested<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #105<\/td>\n<td>Close contact<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 6, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #106<\/td>\n<td>Close contact<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 6, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #107<\/td>\n<td>Unknown<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 4, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #108<\/td>\n<td>Close contact<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 7, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #109<\/td>\n<td>Close contact<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 7, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Case #110<\/td>\n<td>Close contact<\/td>\n<td>Self-isolating<\/td>\n<td>Jan 7, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Unknown exposure<\/strong> means the person did not have recent international travel or close contact with a known confirmed case.\u00a0 How the person acquired the virus is not known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Close contact<\/strong> means the person acquired their infection through close contact with a known confirmed case.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algomapublichealth.com\/disease-and-illness\/infectious-diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 130px;\" border=\"1\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Tested (1)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Confirmed<br \/>\ncases (2)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Active<br \/>\ncases<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Resolved<br \/>\ncases (3)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Deceased<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>74,409<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>110<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>44 (1)*\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>66<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">Updated: January 7, 2021, 7:00 p.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Algoma Region<\/td>\n<td><strong>Any residents who have tested positive for COVID-19?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Any evidence of local community spread?<br \/>\n<\/strong>(since August 2020 \u2013<br \/>\nAlgoma\u2019s second wave)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Central &amp; East Algoma<\/td>\n<td>Yes (5)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Elliot Lake &amp; Area<\/td>\n<td>Yes (less than 5)<\/td>\n<td><strong>Possible\/Likely:<\/strong><br \/>\nevidence of community\u00a0 spread is present in other areas of Algoma and in neighbouring public health units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North Algoma<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td><strong>Possible\/Likely:<\/strong><br \/>\nevidence of community\u00a0 spread is present in other areas of Algoma and in neighbouring public health units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sault Ste. Marie &amp;\u00a0 Area<\/td>\n<td>Yes (103)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed cases reported in last 14 days.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\u00a0 Updated: January 7, 2021 7:00 p.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sault Ste. Marie &amp; Area includes:\u00a0Batchewana First Nation, Garden River First Nation, Laird, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, Prince, Sault Ste. Marie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In response to the expanding number of cases, the Sault Area Hospital has implemented visitor restrictions that will take effect on Friday. The restrictions will only allow labouring mothers, pediatric patients, patients undergoing urgent surgery, long-stay patients with identified support, or patients who are at end-of-life to have one consistent visitor throughout their stay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 7, 2021 at 19:24 Algoma Public Health is reporting 6 (six) new cases of COVID-19. All cases are from Sault Ste. Marie and area. 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, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 01:03:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40900,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions\/40900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}