variant | CEKAN

Michael Kras
10 Jan 2022

Hamilton now offering walk-in option for ages 5-11 at select vaccine clinics

Hamilton public health is now offering walk-in vaccinations for residents aged 5 to 11 at select clinics around the city. This is an effort to expedite the rollout of doses to the local population ami...

Michael Kras
17 Dec 2021

Hamilton ramps up COVID-19 vaccination capacity for booster doses

As the Omicron variant continues to surge across Ontario, the City of Hamilton has announced its immediate plans to ramp up vaccine capacity to get booster shots to residents as quickly as possible. T...

Michael Kras
16 Dec 2021

Ontario announces new measures to combat Omicron variant of COVID-19

As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread across the province at an unprecedented rate, the Ontario government is announcing new measures to help mitigate the spread. The two largest move...

Michael Kras
14 Dec 2021

Hamilton residents aged 50+ can now book a COVID-19 booster shot

Starting this week, eligible Hamilton residents ages 50 and up are eligible to book an appointment for a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccines. Locals who fall into this category are now eligible to rec...

Michael Kras
29 Nov 2021

Ontario confirms first two cases of new Omicron COVID-19 variant

Days after it was labelled a ‘variant of concern’ by the World Health Organization (WHO), Ontario has confirmed its first two known cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The two cases were fou...

Michael Kras
18 Jun 2021

Hamilton is now a hotspot for the Delta variant of COVID-19

Hamilton has been freshly added to the list of Ontario’s public health units that are hotspots for the more infectious Delta variant of COVID-19. The Delta variant, known formally as B.1617.2 and fi...

Michael Kras
17 Mar 2021

Ontario enters third wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Don’t let your guard down yet: Ontario’s science and health leaders have expressed that the province has now entered the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data shared by the COVID-19 science ta...

Michael Kras
17 Feb 2021

More contagious UK variant of COVID-19 has been found in Hamilton

It was only a matter of time, but local public health has officially confirmed the first known case of the UK variant of COVID-19 in Hamilton. This mutation of the novel coronavirus, originally identi...