Algoma Public Health (APH) is reporting 3 new cases of COVID-19.\u00a0One is from Central & East Algoma and 2 are from Elliot Lake & area.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Details of the confirmed cases: <\/p>\n 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 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 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n hospitalized<\/strong><\/td>\n (1)\u00a0That Algoma Public Health is aware of.<\/p>\n (2) Algoma residents who have confirmed COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n *The number in brackets are active cases in non-Algoma residents who are temporarily in Algoma.\u00a0 These cases are not counted as part of Algoma\u2019s confirmed case count.\u00a0 APH conducts contact tracing and monitoring of self-isolation for all cases within Algoma.<\/p>\n (3)\u00a0Patient tested positive but is resolved according to current public health criteria.\u00a0This number includes any persons who are deceased.<\/p>\n Algoma Public Health (APH) is reporting 3 new cases of COVID-19.\u00a0One is from Central & East Algoma and 2 are from Elliot Lake & area. 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. Details of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 21:51:08","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\/41757","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41758,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41757\/revisions\/41758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n Case
\nNumber<\/strong><\/td>\nExposure
\nCategory<\/strong><\/td>\nStatus<\/strong><\/td>\n Tested<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Case #182<\/td>\n Unknown<\/td>\n Self-isolating<\/td>\n Feb 5, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Case #183<\/td>\n Unknown<\/td>\n Self-isolating<\/td>\n Feb 3, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Case #184<\/td>\n Close contact<\/td>\n Self-isolating<\/td>\n Feb 3, 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n \n\n
\n Tested (1)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n Confirmed
\ncases (2)<\/strong><\/td>\nActive
\ncases<\/strong><\/td>\nCurrently<\/strong><\/p>\n Resolved
\ncases (3)<\/strong><\/td>\nDeceased<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 87,789<\/strong><\/td>\n 184<\/strong><\/td>\n 28<\/strong><\/td>\n 2<\/strong><\/td>\n 156<\/strong><\/td>\n 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Updated: February 7, 2021, 7:45 p.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n