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PSA: 24 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (#768 - #791)

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PSA: 24 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (#768 - #791)

Thu, Nov 18, 2021

 

We are reporting 24 new cases­­ of COVID-19 (#768 - #791), all from Sault Ste. Marie and area.

 

Details of the confirmed cases:

 

Case
Number		 Exposure
Category		 Status Tested
Case #768 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021

Case #769

 Close contact Self-isolating November 16, 2021
Case #770 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #771 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #772 Close contact Self-isolating November 14, 2021

Case #773

 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #774 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #775 Unknown Self-isolating November 15, 2021
Case #776 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021 
Case #777 Close contact Self-isolating November 15, 2021
Case #778 Close contact Self-isolating November 15, 2021
Case #779 Close contact Self-isolating November 15, 2021
Case #780 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #781 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #782 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #783 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #784 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #785 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #786 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #787 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #788 Unknown Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #789 Close contact Self-isolating November 17, 2021
Case #790 Close contact Self-isolating November 18, 2021
Case #791 Close contact Self-isolating November 18, 2021

 

 

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

 

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