Hamilton public health (HPH) reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the city’s overall total of positive cases to 112.
In the city’s town hall, medical officer of health Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said 41 per cent of the cases are connected to travel, with 23 per cent believed to have come through community transmission.
Nine people are currently in hospital being treated for the new coronavirus with two in an intensive care unit. The city continues to hold at only one death due to COVID-19 as of April 1, an 80-year-old female resident from Heritage Green Nursing Home who died at St.
Joseph’s Hospital on Charlton Avenue East on March 24. Richardson says 34 cases have been resolved, however, could not say if those people are