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Michael Kras
24 Sep 2020

City of Hamilton urges locals to book online in advance for COVID-19 testing

With rapidly increasing demand for COVID-19 testing and limited local facilities, the City of Hamilton is urging residents looking for an assessment to book their appointments in advance rather than w...

Michael Kras
11 Sep 2020

Ontario reports over 200 confirmed COVID-19 cases in a single day

The province of Ontario has reported 213 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, marking the largest single-day increase in known cases since June. Broken down by region, 71 of these new cases are ...

Michael Kras
11 Sep 2020

Hamilton sees first human case of West Nile Virus for 2020

The City of Hamilton has announced that the first local human case of West Nile Virus (WNV) has been found for 2020, with the Medical Officer of Health now moving the local risk from moderate to high....

Michael Kras
08 Sep 2020

Hamilton’s COVID-19 data currently seeing two-day delay

The local COVID-19 updates publicly reported on the City of Hamilton will currently feature a 48-hour delay, according to local public health. The delay, which means that COVID-19 data obtained by the...

Michael Kras
02 Sep 2020

Hamilton surpasses 1,000 total confirmed COVID-19 cases since pandemic began

Though it’s not the most pleasant milestone, Hamilton has just confirmed 4 new cases of COVID-19 in the city as of Wednesday morning, officially pushing the total confirmed cases to date to over 1,0...

Michael Kras
20 Aug 2020

New public art project honours Hamilton’s healthcare heroes

After a similar initiative in 2019 was successful, the City of Hamilton is commissioning a new public art series to be installed on traffic signal boxes all over the city; and what makes the project e...

Michael Kras
11 Aug 2020

Ontario reports lowest number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases since March

In a spot of news worth celebrating, the province of Ontario has reported its daily number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases, and that number is the lowest it has been since March. Following a full week...

Michael Kras
03 Aug 2020

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus have been found in Hamilton

Be safe and double up on that bug spray, because a cluster of mosquitoes trapped and examined in Hamilton last week were found to test positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). These findings mark the first...

Michael Kras
15 Jul 2020

Ontario reports lowest number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases since March

In a spot of positive news, Ontario has reported its lowest number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in almost four months. While daily confirmed cases have remained relatively low province-wide for m...

Michael Kras
23 Apr 2020

Doug Ford says Ontario will absolutely not be reopening by May 24th

While many Ontarians may have guessed this already, now it’s official: the province reopening and lifting COVID-19 restrictions by May 24th is “absolutely not going to happen,” according to Prem...