APH reports small increase in hospitalizations and patients in ICU with COVID-19

Algoma Public Health has reported one new hospitalization and two new ICU cases of COVID-19 along with 66 new confirmed cases, those due to limits on who can be tested, this number may be an underestimation.

There are currently 21 people in hospital with COVID-19, three of whom were admitted due to COVID-19 related illness.

Three people are in ICU with COVID-19, up from one in the previous report.

There are 400 active cases in the region, up from 391, and 57 cases have been resolved.

APH ran 429 tests with a positivity rate of 13.7 per cent.

Of those eligible, 85.2 per cent of Algoma Public Health region residents have received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Note: As of Dec. 31, 2021, the province has limited COVID-19 PCR testing to the highest risk populations. Furthermore, some people with mild or asymptomatic infection may not seek testing. Algoma Public Health states that the numbers of confirmed cases are an underestimate of the actual number of people with COVID-19 in the Algoma region.