COVID-19 Information

SLFNHA is providing this data update to help communities, health care providers, and health planners in their response to COVID-19. Currently, we receive updates on testing by community three times per week and will include this information when available.

DASHBOARD SCHEDULE: COVID-19 Information is updated by 3pm., Monday to Friday (except Statutory Holidays).

UPDATE: Monday, October 18, 2021

Table 1 - COVID-19 Highlights

Sources: ^ SLFNHA COVID-19 Regional Surveillance System. Includes confirmed cases whose primary residence is in one of the 31 communities served by SLFNHA. † The Government of Canada COVID-19 daily epidemiology update. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html#tiles Thunder Bay District Health Unit. This number includes any cases among Sioux Lookout Area First Nations residing in Thunder Bay. Northwestern Health Unit Northwestern Health Unit. Note that cases are reported by Health Hub – Sioux Lookout Health Hub includes the municipalities of Pickle Lake and Hudson. Note that this number includes any cases among Sioux Lookout Area First Nations residing in Sioux Lookout. Province of Manitoba government

Table 2. COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Sioux Lookout area First Nations, Ontario, and Canada

± Source of data: Operation Remote Immunity (ORI) – ORNGE Air Ambulance, COVaxON, SLFNHA Approaches to Community Wellbeing Immunization Repository. Data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake may include non-community members (such as police officers, teachers, and so forth). Since non-community members are not included in the population denominators, it will result in increases of the coverage percentage. ±± All data are exclusively collected from publicly available sources including government reports Ontario: https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/covid-19-vaccine-data-in-ontario/resource/775ca815-5028-4e9b-9dd4-6975ff1be021. Canada data: https://covid19tracker.ca/vaccinationtracker.html. † The latest available data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake by age group (i.e., 12-17 and 18 and above) in the public domain for Canada is for the past few weeks ago and is not presented in this table. Considering the pace of vaccination, it could not be a suitable comparator for the current situation of two other populations.

Figure1. COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Sioux Lookout area First Nations and Ontario

Table 3. COVID-19 COVID -19 Reported Cases and Deaths by Province

Sources: The Government of Canada COVID-19 daily epidemiology update. https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-summary-covid-19-cases.html#tiles

Travel Advisory

Sioux Lookout	Dryden / Red Lake	Kenora	Thunder Bay	Winnipeg

Note: Travel Advisory is based on the active case rate per 100,000 population in each location

Risk Level for Travel in Ontario and Other Provinces

Data for Thunder Bay: https://www.tbdhu.com/coviddata#top

Data for Winnipeg: https://www.gov.mb.ca/covid19/prs/winnipeg/index.html

Data for Ontario Public Health Units: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/data-and-analysis/infectious-disease/covid-19-data-surveillance/covid-19-data-tool?tab=maps

and: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread

Data for Provinces/Territories: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html

Data for Sioux Lookout, Dryden/Red Lake, Kenora: https://www2.nwhu.on.ca/covid-19/data/