Hamilton Public Health (HPH) added 18 new positive COVID-19 cases on Sunday, which saw the city’s total jump from 52 on Saturday to 70 as of March 29.
The agency says Sunday’s increase was the result of the Public Health Ontario Laboratory reporting previously outstanding test results coming from cases tested between March 13 and 29.
The city says 41 percent of its positive cases come from people aged between 20 and 44 years old with 24 of the 70 cases connected to a history of travel.
On Saturday, Hamilton Health Sciences reported that one of its nurses working at the McMaster University Medical Centre-McMaster Children’s Hospital site had tested positive for the virus causing COVID-19. “We are still working with Hamilton Public Health to