That’s down nine reported Monday.
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Active cases also declined to 84 on Tuesday from 89 on Monday.
Hospitalizations in the area remained the same as the Brant Community Health Care System reported Monday and Tuesday three COVID patients receiving care at Brantford General Hospital. None was in critical care.
The health unit reports four patients are hospitalized with the difference due to the timing in reporting numbers.
Since the pandemic began in March last year, 3,265 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Brantford and Brant County, with 3,161 of those resulting in recovered cases.
Brantford and Brant County have posted their lowest weekly COVID-19 case count in more than two months.
The Brant County Health Unit n Monday reported nine positive results in the previous 24 hours, bringing to 86 the total number of cases for the week ended May 30 the lowest since 66 cases were recorded for the week ended March 28.
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Case counts have been declining since hitting a record 269 for the week ended April 18.
Last week’s total is down from 102 for the week ended May 23 and 163 for the week ended May 16.
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The Brant County Health Unit reported 19 new cases of COVID-19 in Brantford and the County of Brant on Saturday morning bringing the number of active cases to 92.
Since the onset of the pandemic there have been 3,238 confirmed cases of the virus. Of those 3,126 have been resolved, while 20 people have died.
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Two of the new cases were removed from the overall case count because one was a false positive, and one was a resident of another health unit jurisdiction.
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Eight more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the Brant County Health Unit said Tuesday.
The additional cases bring to 1,317 the number of local positive tests since the start of the pandemic last March. Of those, 1,264 have been resolved.
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There are 46 active COVID-19 cases in Brantford-Brant.
Of those, six people are receiving treatment in Brantford General Hospital, while the rest are self-isolating.
Seven people in Brantford-Brant have died as a result of COVID-19.
A total of 2,552 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered. The health unit completed vaccination of all local long-term care and retirement home residents last week. But vaccination of some staff and health-care workers is on hold because of the looming nationwide shortage of shots.