Posted: Apr 06, 2021 3:15 PM ET | Last Updated: April 6
St. Joseph s Healthcare Hamilton is caring for 28 patients with COVID-19 and Hamilton Health Sciences is caring for 81. (Brendan McDermind/Reuters)
The Ontario government says some people 50 and over in specific hot spot postal code areas including in Hamilton, Niagara, and Halton will soon be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
As it moves to Phase 2 of its vaccination rollout, the province is expanding the age range in neighbourhoods identified as disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
The postal codes are from 13 different public health units being prioritized.
The selected communities include:
Niagara: L2G (Niagara Falls).
Schools are not safe, union leaders want Hamilton schools closed amid more COVID-19 cases
Union leaders at Hamilton school boards are calling for full remote learning as students and staff continue to contract COVID-19. They re also casting doubt on Premier Doug Ford s insistence that schools are safe right now.
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With the winter break approaching, there is concern families won t abide by public health recommendations and will gather during the holidays. People do gather around that Christmas holiday . We would have people potentially coming back to school who may have engaged in a gathering larger than you re supposed to, increasing the risk [to others] and they would be asymptomatic, so it wouldn t necessarily be caught by screening, Danko said.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement on Friday afternoon that as we continue to see increased rates of community transmission, our schools remain safe. To put this into perspective eight out of ten schools in this province have no active COVID-19 cases at all and 99.66 per cent of students have never reported a case of COVID-19, he said.
1 new outbreak and 10 more students in Hamilton test positive for COVID-19
Hamilton Public Health Services has declared an outbreak at Frank Panabaker North School after two students tested positive for COVID-19.
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Ten more students in Hamilton have COVID-19.(Oksana Kuzmina/Adobe Stock)
Hamilton Public Health Services has declared an outbreak at Frank Panabaker North School after two students tested positive for COVID-19.
The individual cases were announced on Dec. 8 and Dec. 11, and Hamilton s public school board said the school remains open. Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) is working with public health officials to facilitate case and contact tracing and manage the outbreak. It is vital that personal health information and identifiers are not released, and the privacy of everyone involved is respected, read a notice to families.