Article content Previous Gallery Image Hockey sticks and floral tributes are placed on the front lawn of Walter Gretzky s home in Brantford. Photo by Brian Thompson /The Expositor Hockey sticks and floral tributes lay on the front lawn of Walter Gretzky s home in Brantford, Ontario on Friday March 5, 2021. Canada s favourite hockey dad passed away at home Thursday at the age of 82. Brian Thompson/Brantford Expositor/Postmedia Network Photo by Brian Thompson /The Expositor Floral tributes lay at the feet of a statue of Walter Gretzky outside the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre in Brantford, Ontario. With it is one of his wife Phyllis, and Wayne Gretzky as a youngster, looking up at a larger statue of Wayne Gretzky hoisting the Stanley Cup over his head. Walter Gretzky passed away Thursday at his Brantford home at the age of 82. Brian Thompson/Brantford Expositor/Postmedia Network Photo by Brian Thompson /The Expositor
Community mourns the loss of Walter Gretzky, 82
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Eight more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the Brant County Health Unit said Tuesday.
The additional cases bring to 1,317 the number of local positive tests since the start of the pandemic last March. Of those, 1,264 have been resolved.
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There are 46 active COVID-19 cases in Brantford-Brant.
Of those, six people are receiving treatment in Brantford General Hospital, while the rest are self-isolating.
Seven people in Brantford-Brant have died as a result of COVID-19.
A total of 2,552 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. The health unit completed vaccination of all local long-term care and retirement home residents last week. But vaccination of some staff and health-care workers is on hold because of the looming nationwide shortage of shots.