Posted: Mar 02, 2021 4:40 PM ET | Last Updated: March 2
Hamilton saw 6 new COVID-19 cases from those doing in-person learning, but only three of them led to potential exposures.(Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press)
Posted: Mar 03, 2021 2:48 PM ET | Last Updated: March 3
A woman wearing a mask walks through Hamilton late last year. (Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Nearly everyone is asymptomatic in the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak at Electromart, an east-end Hamilton business that is the second location in the city to screen positive for variant cases of the virus. Everybody s doing well, except for my son who has a cough, says employee Joan Orgel, whose husband owns the electrical supply business near Parkdale Avenue North and Nikola Tesla Boulevard.
Her son, who is 19, was the first person to be tested after developing symptoms, she told CBC Hamilton. There are now five confirmed COVID cases at the family business and two additional employees who are self-isolating.
Access troubles continue at city s COVID-19 vaccination hotline
On its fourth day in operation, seniors are still having problems getting through to the city phone line set up to book vaccinations for people aged 85 and above.
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Posted: Mar 01, 2021 11:56 AM ET | Last Updated: March 1
The Hamilton Public Health Services mobile vaccine clinic is now offering COVID-19 vaccines to workers and residents in Hamilton s shelter system.(Kate Dubinski/CBC News)
Health-care workers, shelter workers and people aged 85 and older are on the list for the COVID-19 vaccine in Hamilton this week.
More than 15,270 people are fully vaccinated in Hamilton now, and health-care agencies have administered more than 33,850 doses of the vaccine so far, both through a fixed Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) site and a mobile clinic.
Meanwhile, the provincial government is working on providing public health units with a vaccine booking tool to implement locally.
COVID-19 cases in Hamilton schools this February almost half of what they were in December
COVID-19 has infected 17 more students and staff since Friday morning. The Catholic board also tested more than 100 people for the virus late last week.
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