Algoma Public Health
PSA: 14 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (#710 - #723)
Mon, Nov 15, 2021
We are reporting 14 new cases of COVID-19 (#710 - #723), all from Sault Ste. Marie and area.
Details of the confirmed cases:
| Case Number |
Exposure Category |
Status | Tested |
| Case #710 | Unknown | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
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Case #711 |
Unknown | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #712 | Unknown | Self-isolating | November 13, 2021 |
| Case #713 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #714 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
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Case #715 |
Unknown | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #716 | Under investigation | Under investigation | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #717 | Unknown | Self-isolating | November 15, 2021 |
| Case #718 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #719 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #720 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #721 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 14, 2021 |
| Case #722 | Unknown | Self-isolating | November 15, 2021 |
| Case #723 | Close contact | Self-isolating | November 15, 2021 |
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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 to protect yourself, your household, and your workplace
1. Anyone who is sick, even with mild symptoms, must stay home and isolate away from others - regardless of whether you have received the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Take the COVID-19 self-assessment every day before work and complete the school screening tool before school or child care.
- Get tested if you have any COVID-19 symptoms, and isolate at home until results are available.
- Household members who are not fully immunized must also stay home until the symptomatic person's test results are available.
- Isolation means you must stay home and not go to work or school. Do not gather, visit, or have visitors or playdates while you are isolating.
2. Cut back on unnecessary activities where you have unmasked, face-to-face close contact with people you don't live with. Do this even if you are fully immunized, and especially if you have vulnerable health conditions or are not fully immunized.
- Spending time indoors with other people without masks is a higher risk activity, especially if not everyone is fully immunized. Examples include play dates, sharing meals together, and certain group sports and recreational activities. To lower your risk at this time, only participate in these types of activities that are most important and essential; do these activities less often, with fewer people, for shorter periods of time, and outdoors if possible.
3. Get your COVID-19 vaccine
- Learn how to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Algoma. If you want to be fully immunized by the holiday season, now is the time to get your first dose.
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.