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Top doc says Hamiltonians still need to ‘pay attention’ to COVID amid new wave

COVID-19 after close to two years of off and on restrictions dealing with the affliction but the city’s top doc says it’s simply not over.Ontario’s science table shares that prognosis with late June data, shared on social media last week, showing that wastewater signals, test positivity and hospitalizations from the virus are on the rise.It likely means the province is already in another wave of COVID-19 driven by the highly infectious BA.5 Omicron subvariant. Ontario municipal leaders call for action amid several temporary ER closures “The COVID virus is going to be around with us for a long time yet to come,” Richardson told 900 CHML’s Hamilton Today.“We are going to continue to see these new variants emerge as it goes forward and we’re all going to need to continue to pay attention to it.”Last week, five of Hamilton Public Health’s key COVID-19 monitoring indicators showed increasing trends, including the seven-day average of new cases, which has moved from 33 reported in mid-June to 62 per day on July 3.Active institutional outbreaks have essentially doubled from eight reported on June 21 to 19 as of July 5.

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COVID-19 vaccine eligibility expands in Hamilton hot spots

COVID-19 hot spots.Starting 8 a.m. Monday, anyone 18 and older in the city’s five hot spot postal codes can book an appointment at a local large-scale or mobile pop-up vaccination clinic.Adults who live in the postal codes L9C and L8W can book an appointment using Ontario’s online portal and Hamilton Public Health‘s COVID-19 Hotline, while those living in L8L, L8N and L9K can only use the city’s hotline.

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Hamilton school boards alert students, staff of possible shift to remote leaning after spring break

COVID-19 cases and epidemiological data in the community. Hamilton’s public school board alerting families of possible shift to remote learning “Hamilton Public Health Services will review the status of COVID-19 in our community to determine if there needs to be a move to remote learning when we return,” the HWDSB said in its letter.The HWDSB says the decision will likely be made on the evening of April 15.The transition will encompass elementary, secondary and current remote learners and will start with a one-day closure, comparable to an inclement weather day.The time off is to deploy devices to families, connect with students, and plan for remote learning, according to the HWDSB’s note.

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Dr. J. E. Davey Elementary in Hamilton closed for a week amid COVID-19 outbreak

COVID-19 outbreak that reduced staffing to inadequate levels to operate the facility.The Hamilton Wentworth District School board (HWDSB) said students from Dr. J.

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Hamilton temporarily closes COVID-19 vaccine hotline until Monday

COVID-19 hotline.In a release on Tuesday afternoon, the city said the hotline’s temporary shutdown was effective immediately in an effort to “streamline the booking process” prior to the launch of the province’s new system on Monday.The hotline is expected to return to coincide with the new portal and will be available to those who don’t have the ability to book online.“We ask that residents do not choose another option on the hotline, the other lines are reserved for those looking to book testing appointments and need urgent access,” the city said in its statement.

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Hamilton adds isolation centre amid concerns over rising coronavirus cases in shelters

COVID-19 cases in the city’s shelter system.Joining the existing shelter at the Bennetto Community Centre on Hughson Street will be the Central Memorial Recreation Centre, which adds capacity for about 30 people who qualify for the service.EOC director Paul Johnson said the move was in response to an increase in cases within city shelters reported by public health over the last number of weeks, including a large outbreak at the Salvation Army Booth centre.

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City apologizes for hotline outages during update on Hamilton’s vaccine rollout

COVID-19 vaccine hotline was plagued by an outage due to high call volumes.Preparations to begin vaccinating seniors aged 85 and older hit a number of bumps on the weekend as the city’s call centre was not equipped to handle the volume of the inquiries it received.“I do want to apologize for the widespread frustration and dissatisfaction with our COVID-19 hotline over the weekend and today,” Richardson said.“We do appreciate just how much people want to ensure that both they, themselves and their loved ones are registered, and I’m very sorry for the angst that this has been causing.” Pent up demand for COVID-19 vaccinations means busy weekend for Hamilton hotline Emergency operations centre (EOC) director Paul Johnson said the issue was

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39 new cases, 4 more COVID-19 outbreaks in Hamilton

COVID-19 outbreaks are included in daily numbers released by Hamilton Public Health on Thursday.One of those outbreaks is at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School, where one student and two staff members have tested positive for the coronavirus.Other newly reported outbreaks involve two patients in the B3 unit at Juravinski Hospital, a client and a staff member at St.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton’s medical officer of health concerned as COVID-19 indicators rise

COVID-19 were confirmed on Tuesday in Hamilton.Hamilton Public Health says growing outbreaks at the Barton Street Jail and Salvation Army booth centre now involve 28 cases each, while an outbreak at The Meadows long-term care home in Ancaster is now over. Community vaccine strategy presented to Hamilton’s board of health The outbreak at the Meadows was declared on Dec.

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55 new cases, 21 COVID-19 outbreaks in Hamilton as of Monday

COVID-19 were reported in Hamilton on Monday.Daily figures posted by Hamilton Public Health show 371 active cases and 21 outbreaks throughout the city. Hamilton reports 110 new COVID-19 cases on the weekend, outbreak at shelter grows to 25 cases Two of the largest active outbreaks involve the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre and the Salvation Army men’s shelter.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]There are 27 cases of the coronavirus at the Barton Street Jail, affecting 19 inmates and eight staff members.The Salvation Army Booth Centre has 25 cases, involving 23 clients and two staff members.

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City studies creation of ‘virtual memorial wall’ to COVID-19 victims

COVID-19.City councillors have unanimously approved a motion, presented by Stoney Creek Coun. Brad Clark, to study the creation of a “virtual memorial wall” on the city’s website.

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Hamilton preparing for arrival of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine within ‘next couple of weeks’

COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to provide some much-needed protection for the city’s long-term care residents.About 2,200 front-line workers have received their first shot since Hamilton’s vaccination clinic began distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech shot to long-term care and health-care workers on Dec. 23, 2020.Dr.

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Hamilton public health introduces enhanced restrictions at retail stores, malls, workplaces

COVID-19 transmission.Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, the city’s chief medical officer of health, said Hamilton remaining in the red ‘control’ stage of the provincial COVID-19 response framework is not a cause for celebration and that the number of cases in the city is still worrying.“These are concerning numbers that were continuing to see, and while we’re not yet in the grey or lockdown zone, we are very close to that,” said Richardson.

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St. Joe’s investigating COVID-19 outbreak at Hamilton long-term care home

COVID-19 outbreak in the city has received a compliance order from public health.Hamilton Continuing Care has received a Section 29.2 order that requires it to let staff from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton respond to the outbreak by investigating, monitoring, and ensuring the facility is complying with infection prevention and control measures.A COVID-19 outbreak at the facility that was declared Oct.

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Number of COVID-19-related deaths at Hamilton’s Chartwell Willowgrove rises to 14

COVID-19 were confirmed in Hamilton Friday, as well as a new death.Hamilton Public health figures show the 73rd death related to the virus in the city was a female resident in her 90s living at Chartwell Willowgrove who passed away on Thursday.She is the 14th resident of the Ancaster long term care home to succumb to an outbreak that has infected 69 residents and staff.

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Number of COVID-19 deaths at Ancaster long-term care home jumps to 12

COVID-19.The latest fatalities involve two women in their early 80s and one woman in her mid-90s, all residents of Chartwell Willowgrove.The number of coronavirus-related deaths at the facility on Old Mohawk Road is now 12. Health officials single out Hamilton restaurant for alleged COVID-19 infractions The total number of cases involved in an outbreak at Chartwell Willowgrove is 67, including 41 residents and 26 staff members.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The total number of deaths related to COVID-19 in Hamilton since the start of the pandemic has increased to 70.

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Health officials single out Hamilton restaurant for alleged COVID-19 infractions

COVID-19 infractions.Krown Kafe in Stoney Creek, Ont., was named by Paul Johnson, director of Hamilton’s Emergency Operations Centre, in his opening remarks during a media update on Monday.Johnson says he felt it was necessary to refer to Krown Kafe specifically because its four infractions led to a change in Hamilton’s policy about naming businesses that broke COVID-19 restrictions.

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COVID-19 claims lives of two more long term care residents in Hamilton, public health says

COVID-19.The city’s move into the “red” zone of pandemic response means gatherings are now restricted to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton public schools report 2 new COVID-19 cases, 34 unresolved cases

COVID-19 case among students on Tuesday.The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) says its new case is at Orchard Park Secondary School in Stoney Creek and involves a student who was last in the building on Oct. 28.Hamilton Public Health (HPH) says the risk of spread is low since the person involved had no close contact with the student body.

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COVID-19 more prevalent among Hamilton’s low-income and racialized residents: public health

COVID-19, according to a new report from public health.The analysis, which was presented to the board of health during Monday’s meeting, consists of data collected from those who responded to questions about social determinants of health like race, sex, income, career and housing.Between March 1 and Aug. 31, there were 992 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton, and 630 of those who tested positive responded to at least one social determinant question.The report said 50.9 per cent of the city’s cases were among people of colour, despite people of colour only representing 19 per cent of the population.Meanwhile, 49 per cent of local cases of the coronavirus were among white residents, who make up 81 per cent of Hamilton’s population.

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Coronavirus: Staff member at Hamilton before-and-after school program tests positive for COVID-19

COVID-19.In a release issued on Thursday evening, Hamilton Public Health says a staff member working for the Umbrella Family and Child Centres of Hamilton’s before-and-after school program at Templemead Elementary School has tested positive for the coronavirus.No information was immediately released about when the staff member tested positive or how many people may have been exposed.“It is vital that personal health information and identifiers are not released, and the privacy of everyone involved is respected,” read the release.

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Coronavirus: ‘We are going to see the occasional outbreak,’ says Hamilton’s MOH

COVID-19, and the city’s medical officer of health says the city’s cases have really “fluctuated” amid the coronavirus pandemic.On Wednesday, public health reported the city hit the 1,000 case mark and Dr. Eilzabeth Richardson says the concern from this point on is whether or not we will see any more spikes during the crisis. “We live in a world now where we’re going to see these cases and we are going to see the occasional outbreak that occurs,” Richardson told Global News.“What we don’t want to see is going back up to the kinds of spikes we did back in April and May.” Ontario reports 132 new coronavirus cases, 0 deaths; total cases at 42,686 In mid-May, the city reached its top rate of cases per week with 18 per 100,000.

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Hamilton’s coronavirus cases amid pandemic tops 1,000: public health

COVID-19 which put the city’s total number of cases over 1,000 since the pandemic began.The agency says it now has 1,003 total cases of new coronavirus cases and 82 active cases.Sixty-eight per cent of cases in the last 10 days have come from people under the age of 30, according to the city.Of the 38 new cases reported, 42 per cent came from people aged between 10 and 19-years-old.Seventy-one per cent (27) are still under investigation with no source of the spread yet confirmed.The city has no current institutional outbreaks as of Sep. 2 and 45 deaths connected to COVID-19 since March.Niagara public health reported two new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday.

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McMaster University grad student on campus tests positive for coronavirus

McMaster University graduate student on campus in Hamilton, Ont., has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.In an update on the school’s website, McMaster says “all areas where the student was on campus have been thoroughly cleaned and are open for normal operations.”No information has been shared as to when or where the student was on campus, nor does McMaster say when the grad student tested positive for COVID-19.The update says the student, in this case, notified the university quickly after testing positive and that Hamilton Public Health is managing contact tracing and will contact anyone who would be part of the tracing.The university is also reminding all faculty and staff that they must complete a COVID-19 screening tool within

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Coronavirus: Ancaster Fortinos employee tests positive for COVID-19, Hamilton with 63 active cases

COVID-19.The company says the employee last worked on Wednesday, Aug. 19 and that the store was closed for “additional cleaning” on Tuesday.A spokesperson for the company says it has also “taken a number of steps to minimize risk including increased sanitization protocols and enforcing social distancing practices in the store.” Number of active COVID-19 cases on the rise as Hamilton enters Phase 3 of municipal reopening plan The case was the second at a Hamilton-area grocery store in three days after Metro confirmed its own COVID-19 case tied to a worker at the Fennell Plaza location at 967 Fennell Ave.

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Coronavirus: Brant county says 5th COVID-19 death connected to travel

novel coronavirus pandemic.The region’s local health unit says a woman in her 90s died on Monday after acquiring the illness through travel outside of Canada.“I want to express my deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of this individual,” acting medical officer of health Dr. Elizabeth Urbantke said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon.

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Coronavirus: Cleaners with electrostatic sprayer ‘bombarded’ with service calls amid pandemic

COVID-19 case tied to a customer last Saturday, a Hamilton bar opted to take on a disinfecting operation with a device that’s been hard to come by since the pandemic began in March.In an Instagram post on Monday, Cause and Effect kitchen and bar on Stone Church Road East said the alleged infected patron was at the business between 8 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, July 25.The bar’s response to the episode was to hire a Hamilton company that says it’s been ‘bombarded’ with calls since Stage 3 of the province’s reopening plan.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton bar says patron with COVID-19 was on the premises Saturday night

COVID-19.In an Instagram post on Monday, Cause and Effect kitchen and bar said the alleged infected patron was at the business between 8 p.m. and midnight on Saturday, July 25.

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Hamilton mayor expects ‘clarity’ from premier on $2M bill to hire health-care workers

COVID-19 testing and to help public health reopen a variety of programs and services that have been suspended during the pandemic.

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Screening, reduced spaces part of Hamilton’s ‘gradual’ reopening of child-care centres

coronavirus pandemic as per the province’s announcement on Tuesday.“So just to be clear, it’s not our own guidelines. Locally, we’ll be following the provincial guidelines and there are still a few unknowns in that following the announcement,” Hamilton’s emergency operations centre (EOC) director Paul Johnson said during the city’s COVID-19 update on Tuesday.The city’s medical officer of health says enhanced cleaning, mandatory screening of staff and children, limitations on visitors, and ensuring an updated COVID-19 response plan are some of the protocols that will be required by the 94 organizations operating child-care facilities across the city.

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Four Hamilton, Ont., long-term care facilities receive infection control orders

The fallout continues from last week’s massive outbreak of COVID-19 at The Rossyln Retirement Residence in east Hamilton.

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Three new cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton, four institutional outbreaks declared over

Hamilton Public Health declared an end to four of the city’s institutional outbreaks of COVID-19 on Thursday.

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Two more coronavirus-related deaths, residents of The Rosslyn, raise Hamilton toll to 30

Hamilton, Ont., health officials announced Wednesday two more residents of The Rosslyn Retirement Residence have died as a result of COVID-19.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 331 new coronavirus cases, 16 deaths

Hamilton, Ontario reported 331 total cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday with 324 confirmed cases and seven probable.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 319 positive cases of COVID-19, 11 deaths

Hamilton, Ontario added 13 more lab-confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, according to the city.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 301 positive cases of COVID-19, 11 deaths

Hamilton, Ontario’s total number of COVID-19 cases spiked on Thursday with 30 new positive tests, according to public health.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 271 cases of COVID-19, 10 deaths

Ontario’s Hamilton Public Health (HPH) reported 15 more positive cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday to bring the total number of people affected by the virus to 271 with another five awaiting lab test results.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 261 cases of COVID-19

Hamilton Public Health (HPH) believes they may now have 261 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday — reporting five probable new cases.

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Hamilton Public Health reports 256 COVID-19 cases, 9 deaths

Hamilton Public Health (HPH) says the city’s total number of COVID-19 cases sits at 256, with nine deaths as of Monday afternoon.

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Hamilton hospitals prepare for surge as city reports 198 COVID-19 cases

Hamilton Public Health (HPH) reported 15 new cases of COVID-19 on April 8, bringing the city’s overall total of positive tests to 198.

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Hamilton set to host virtual town hall on coronavirus

Hamilton residents who have questions about the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19, will have a chance to get some answers Wednesday evening.

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Hamilton hospitals reveal plan to open beds as public health reports 183 COVID-19 cases

Hamilton Public Health (HPH) reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 on April 7, bringing the city’s overall total of positive tests to 183.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton set to host virtual town hall on COVID-19

Hamilton residents who have questions about COVID-19 will have a chance to get some answers Wednesday evening.

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Hamilton coronavirus cases spike as total reaches 70, says public health

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.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton nurse working in 2 dialysis units tests positive for COVID-19

A nurse who worked with dialysis units at two Hamilton hospitals is the latest health-care worker to test positive for the new coronavirus in the city.

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Coronavirus: Hamilton set to host second virtual town hall meeting on COVID-19

Hamilton residents who have questions about COVID-19 will have a chance to get some answers Wednesday night.

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Coronavirus: Passenger with COVID-19 was on GO bus from Pearson to Hamilton, says Metrolinx

A GO Transit driver is self-isolating after the transit agency reported that someone on a bus from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19.

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Hamilton nursing home resident tests positive for COVID-19

Hamilton Public Health has confirmed a case of COVID-19 at a long-term care facility in Stoney Creek.

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