COVID-19 on Wednesday, putting the city’s total number of cases up to 747 since the pandemic began.There are now 740 confirmed novel coronavirus cases with another seven probable infections.There was a new death according to public health — a 68-year-old man who passed in hospital on Monday.The death was another tied with the Rosslyn retirement home on King Street East.
The home accounts for 14 of the city’s 42 total COVID-19 connected deaths.The city has just one institutional outbreak as of Wednesday at the COVID-19 unit at Hamilton General Hospital, where 10 staff members came down with the infection.
Hamilton hospitals say, in all, they have 37 COVID-19 patients in care units — Hamilton Health Sciences has 18 while St. Joseph’s.