COVID-19 cases on Friday and four more virus-related deaths, with three tied to a Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) hospital.Public health reported the new deaths at the Juravinski Hospital’s F4 surgical unit on Friday.
The section has been in an outbreak since Jan. 15 and has seen 21 coronavirus cases.The city’s two hospital agencies, HHS and St.
Joe’s, have a combined 11 current outbreaks in local health facilities. There are more than 200 cases connected to the surges involving at least 100 patients and 100 workers.
There have been 11 deaths tied to the outbreaks with seven from Juravinski’s E3 Clinical Teaching Unit.The satellite health facility on Main Street East added five more cases on Friday on the sixth-floor outbreak.