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Confusion surrounding who is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination was cleared up Monday.
The Ontario government announced that, starting Tuesday, all adults will be eligible to book their COVID-19 vaccine through the province’s website.
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Bookings will open at 8 a.m. for anyone turning 18 or older this year. The province has said that it will open eligibility to those aged 12 to 18 for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on May 31.
Visit www.ontario.ca/bookvaccine or local public health systems for more information.
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The Brant County Health Unit on Wednesday reported three deaths from COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours.
All three cases involved men who were hospitalized at the time of their deaths.
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The health unit said one was in his 60s and had close contact with a confirmed case transmission. He also had the E484K and N501Y mutations.
The second was in his 70s and had no known epidemiological link for the virus, which means that a link to a close contact with the man has not been identified. It is suspected that he contracted the virus through community transmission. The N501Y mutation was detected.
Brantford and Brant County are seeing a decrease in active COVID-19 cases.
The Brant County Health Unit on Wednesday reported 243 active cases, down from 306 on Tuesday
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The news also was better Wednesday in terms of new COVID-19 cases, with the health unit reporting 19 positive results in the previous 24 hours, compared to 29 on Tuesday.
For the week ended April 25, the area recorded 242 new cases, down from a record 269 for the week ended April 18.
However, hospitalizations remain high.
On Wednesday morning, a record 28 COVID-19 patients were being treated at Brantford General Hospital, up from 26 on Tuesday. Of the 28 currently being treated, 11 were in critical care and 17 were in acute medical inpatient care.