Article content The Brant County Health Unit reported Wednesday 23 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Figures provided by the health unit show there are 161 active cases of COVID-19 in Brantford-Brant and there are nine people in hospital receiving treatment for the virus. The Brant Community Healthcare System says it has eight COVID-19 patients at Brantford General Hospital including four in critical care. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. The discrepancy is due to reporting times. As of Wednesday, there have been 2,964 positive COVID-19 cases in Brantford-Brant since the pandemic began and of those, 2,783 have been resolved. Twenty people locally have died of COVID-19.