The release said the three employees last worked at the base on Dec. 28 and on Friday. Although the employees followed all proper usage for personal protective equipment (PPE) and there is not believed to be any unprotected contact with the public, the city is advising residents out of an abundance of caution, read the release. Hamilton Public Health Services will connect directly with anyone who is considered a close contact of these cases as part of their contact tracing.
The release also says the base is undergoing a deep clean and there s no interruption to service or operations.
This comes after 36 emergency medical services workers in Niagara were self-isolating and five people tested positive for the virus. During the first wave of COVID-19, there were 70 paramedics out of the workplace.
Posted: Dec 30, 2020 11:56 AM ET | Last Updated: December 30, 2020
Deborah Tilli, 27, says she accepted the possibility of death while suffering a severe allergic reaction after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. She says she feared her two daughters, ages seven and four, would be left without a mother.(Submitted by Deborah Tilli)
A personal support worker feels the health-care system failed her after someone overlooked her allergies, she says, and let her get a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine triggered a severe reaction which she says caused her to faint, suffer multiple seizures, require CPR and still feel the effects almost a week later.
Deborah Tilli, 27, is one of the few people to have had a severe reaction to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. And while she doesn t want people to avoid the vaccine, Tilli says her case is a cautionary tale for those with allergies.
12 Hamilton students, 1 staff member test positive for COVID-19
Twelve more students and one staff member have tested positive for COVID-19 in Hamilton-area schools as of Wednesday.
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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 12:39 PM ET | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
The majority of new COVID-19 cases in Hamilton students and staff didn t have school-related close contacts.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Posted: Dec 22, 2020 2:20 PM ET | Last Updated: December 22, 2020
Hamilton is nearing 1,000 active cases after reporting 101 new positive tests on Tuesday.(Evan Aagaard/ CBC News)
Hamilton Public Health Services (HPHS) recorded 101 more COVID-19 cases and three more deaths in the city.
All three people who died were 80 or older, according to local data. There are also 51 people in hospital.
Of the 5,026 cases recorded since March, 992 of them are active.
Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, the city s medical officer of health, said there may be issues with the daily reporting of cases over the next few days due to tech issues, and to focus on the weekly rate of new cases per 100,000 people. That weekly rate has grown, from 114 cases to 115.3.
Provincial data shows Hamilton has the fourth highest number of COVID-19 cases per week per 100,000 people at 109 as of Dec. 17. On Monday, that number was at 114.
Hamilton also has the fifth highest COVID-19 test positivity rate at 4.3 per cent (which means 4.3 per cent of all COVID-19 tests in Hamilton are positive). Monday s rate is at 3.9 per cent, but the local medical officer of health, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, has said anything above three per cent impacts the effectiveness of contact-tracing efforts.
Mayor Fred Eisenberger said on Monday this year there will not be any free HSR transportation on New Year s Eve in an effort to only have people use transit for essential purposes.