COVID-19: Hamilton reports 11 new cases as Ontario sets new record
Published October 2, 2020 at 5:46 pm
The City of Hamilton is reporting on Friday (Oct. 2), 11 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the city’s total to 1,177.
The City of Hamilton is reporting on Friday (Oct. 2), 11 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the city’s total to 1,177.
Hamilton’s death toll related to the virus is 46, while the number of resolved cases is up to 1,028 (approximately 87 per cent of local cases).
The city’s data estimates that there are 103 known active cases of the virus in the community at the moment.
There are three active outbreaks in Hamilton: two congregate-care facilities declared an outbreak earlier this week when an employee at each tested positive and on Thursday, an outbreak was declared at a restaurant in Hess village after two staff members tested positive.
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To date, 79,909 COVID-19 tests have been completed at local assessment centres.
Meanwhile, Ontario is reporting 732 new cases of COVID-19 — the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic.
The province is also reporting two new deaths associated with the virus, in addition to 74 deaths that occurred earlier this year that are only now just appearing due to a data review by Toronto Public Health, according to Health Minister Christine Elliott.
The total number of COVID-19 cases for the province is up to 52,980 and 2,927 deaths.
Nearly 40,100 tests were completed across the province on Thursday.
There are 323 new cases in Toronto, 141 in Ottawa and 111 in Peel. Other areas seeing an uptick in the number of new cases include Durham with 34 and York Region reporting 38.
The number of resolved cases in Ontario is up by 428, bringing the total to 44,850.
There are currently 167 people hospitalized due to the virus across the province, 38 are being treated in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and 21 require a ventilator.
Elliott said in a Tweet on Friday that 58 per cent of Friday’s cases are in people under the age of 40.
The second highest daily increase in the number of new cases was earlier this week on Monday (Sept 29), when the province reported 700 new cases of the virus.
The province is also reporting 37 new COVID-19 cases related to schools, including at least 30 among students. None of those is in Hamilton.
Those bring the number of schools with a reported case to 318 out of Ontario’s 4,828 publicly funded schools.
— with a file and photo from the Canadian Press
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