Posted: Mar 07, 2021 3:05 PM ET | Last Updated: March 7 Masks and gloves are commonly seen in Hamilton in light of the pandemic. The city has 431 active cases of COVID-19 as of Sunday.(Evan Aagaard/CBC) Hamilton's active cases and weekly cases per 100,000 people have climbed in the past month, showing the city's pandemic situation is almost as bad as it was at the start of February. After infections began to fall from January into mid-February, some of the city's COVID-19 data could have allowed for Hamilton to loosen restrictions and drop into the province's Orange-Restrict zone. The city stayed in red over fears variants of concern would spread.