LATEST: Second day in a week that Hamilton is reporting no new cases of COVID-19
Published June 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm
No new cases of COVID-19 are being reported in Hamilton on Monday (June 22).
For the second time in a week, the City of Hamilton is reporting no new cases in a 24-hour period.
No new cases of COVID-19 are being reported in Hamilton on Monday (June 22).
For the second time in a week, the City of Hamilton is reporting no new cases in a 24-hour period.
As of Monday morning, there are 802 cases of the virus in the community — 793 confirmed and nine probable.
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Last Monday was the first time since the pandemic was first reported in Hamilton on March 11 that there had been no new cases reported in one day. Since then, there have been 33 new local cases reported.
Since last reporting on Sunday, however, there has been one more death related to the virus in Hamilton, bringing the city’s death toll to 43.
In the meantime, the community’s rate of resolved cases is inching upwards: 708 cases have been resolved so far, accounting for 88 per cent of Hamilton’s overall case count.
This means that at the moment, there are fewer than 100 active cases in the city and there are no active outbreaks at any long-term or congregate care facilities in Hamilton.
Provincewide, there are 161 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths being reported on Monday.
That’s the lowest total of new daily cases since late March and brings the province to a total of 33,637 cases, including 2,609 deaths and 28,933 resolved cases.
About 70 per cent of Monday’s new cases come from the three regions that are still in Stage 1 of the province’s reopening plan — Peel reported 44 new cases, Toronto reported 36 and Windsor-Essex reported 32.
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit says that 31 of their 32 new cases Monday come from the agri-farm sector.
Two migrant workers have died in the region due to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit is now reporting that a migrant worker in their area has died amid a farm outbreak there.
The farm currently has 199 infected migrant workers and 18 other people associated with the farm who tested positive for COVID-19, the health unit said.
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