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Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is set to launch a new $175 million hospital information system on Saturday, but people who were part of a hospital committee on equity, diversity and inclusion say the system is missing key data.

After years of waiting, construction is set to begin on a new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital. EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare has been awarded the $224 million contract to design and build the new health-care site.

Hundreds of Hamilton Health Sciences staff and physicians are off work as a result of COVID infection or exposure, the hospital said Thursday.

The latestcoronavirus news from Canada and around the world Thursday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

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There are still 146 patients in local hospitals with COVID-19 and 181 staff in self-isolation.

The pandemic has shone "a bright light" on deficiencies in the health-care system, says the head of Hamilton Health Sciences.

A hospital network in Hamilton has fired 138 workers because they refused to get fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

As many Hamilton students return to in-person learning Wednesday, the city’s public health department is reporting that only 10 per cent of children between the ages of five and 11 have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“At the best of times we struggle, but it is worse right now: There are a lot of staff with COVID or isolating.”