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.
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Despite a lower daily COVID-19 case count in the province, Brantford-Brant saw its new cases increase Tuesday.
Following 18 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the Brant County Health Unit reported on Tuesday 30 new cases in the past 24 hours.
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That is in sharp contrast to the province, which registered 2,791 new cases on Tuesday, the first time Ontario has been below 3,000 since April 5. There were 3,436 cases reported in the province Monday.
Although new cases increased in Brantford-Brant, active cases remain stable. There are 178 active cases currently in the community compared to 176 on Monday.
Author of the article: Expositor staff
Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 4 minute read •
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There was a significant drop in the number of new COVID-19 cases last week in Brantford and Brant County.
For the week ended May 2, the Brant County Health Unit recorded 164 new positive cases. That is down from 245 cases for the week ended April 25 and a record 269 for the week ended April 18.
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The number of active cases in the area now is 176. A week ago. there were more than 306.
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The Haldimand Norfolk Health Unit reported on Friday 29 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
It is the highest number of new cases so far this week and puts the weekly case count on par with last week.
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For the week ended April 25, there were 166 positive results. So far, for the first four reporting days this week, there have been 93 cases.
Both numbers average out to 23 cases a day.
The seven-day record was 178 positive results for the week ended April 18 when there were about 25 cases per day.
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The Brant County Health Unit reported on Friday a significant increase in new COVID-19 cases.
After 18 positive results were recorded Thursday, the health unit on Friday reported 37 new cases in the past 24 hours.
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Even with the uptick, the weekly case count is behind that of the previous two weeks.
After a record 269 cases were recorded for the week ended April 18, there were 245 cases reported for the week ended April 25. So far, through four days of reporting this week, there have been 103 cases, which is well behind the average daily cases from the previous two weeks.