An 82-year-old man is the latest COVID-19-related death in Hamilton, Ont., according to the city. The man passed away in hospital on Wednesday.
The case is not related to any of the city’s outbreaks and came from the community, says public health. Hamilton now has 20 deaths out of 431 total cases of the novel coronavirus as of Thursday.
The city has 424 confirmed cases and seven probable. Two hundred-fifty-three cases have now been resolved. Public health says there are currently 14 outbreaks in the city — 10 institutional with four in the community.
Sixty-six people are patients or residents at the outbreak locations. Cardinal Retirement Residence has accounted for 64 total cases — 47 resident/patients and 17 staff — since the outbreak was