PSA: 1 new confirmed case of COVID-19 (#397)

Fri, Jun 11, 2021

Algoma Public Health (APH) is reporting 1 new case of COVID-19, from Sault Ste. Marie and area

 

Through contact tracing, APH notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted by APH you are not considered a close contact.

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.

 

International travel means the person acquired their infection from travel outside of Canada.

Critical Actions:

• Anyone who is ill, even with mild symptoms, must stay home and self-isolate away from others.
• Stay home as much as possible, and avoid gathering, visiting or having close contact with people you don’t live with.
• Ontario is currently in Step 1 of Ontario's Three-Step Roadmap to Reopen. This three-step plan to safely and gradually lift public health measures based on ongoing progress of provincewide vaccination rates and improvements of key public health and health care indicators. 
• As of October 2, 2020, the mandatory masking policy was extended to all of Ontario for all indoor settings across the province, such as businesses, facilities and workplaces.

Learn more:

• View our webpage with updated status of cases in Algoma. 
• Learn more about COVID-19 in Algoma.
• Visit Ontario’s website to learn more about the province’s response to COVID-19.