LATEST: 10 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Hamilton

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Published June 18, 2020 at 5:58 pm

As of Thursday (June 18), the City of Hamilton is reporting 788 cases of COVID-19 in the community since its first arrival here in March — which is up by 10 from Wednesday.

As of Thursday (June 18), the City of Hamilton is reporting 788 cases of COVID-19 in the community since its first arrival here in March — which is up by 10 from Wednesday.

There are 780 confirmed cases and eight probable, according to City data.

This is the first time this week that the increase in local cases has been in the double digits. The week started with the City reporting no new cases on Monday.

Hamilton’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 42.

There have been 677 local cases that have been resolved, so far, accounting for approximately 86 per cent of Hamilton’s overall cases.

There have been no active outbreaks reported at long-term or congregate care facilities since June 10.

Hamilton is also seeing the number of people being treated at area hospitals for the virus drop: there are currently 17 hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the community at the moment.

Ontario is reporting 173 new cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, and three more deaths.

It’s the lowest number of new cases since late March and brings the province to a total of 32,917.

That’s an increase of 0.5 per cent over the previous day, the lowest growth rate since early March.

The total includes 2,553 deaths and 28,004 resolved cases — with those now making up more than 85 per cent of the province’s total.

The numbers of patients with COVID-19 in hospital, in intensive care and on ventilators all dropped to their lowest levels since the province started publicly reporting those figures at the beginning of April.

More than half of the province’s new cases come from Toronto, with 70 cases, and Peel Region, with 27.

— with a file from The Canadian Press

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