Ninety-two new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Niagara on Sunday. It follows Saturday s increase, which went into the triple digits with a high of 126 new cases reported in one day.
The region has a total of 3,039 cases, including 597 that are active and 2,346 that are resolved.
Ninety-six people have died.
Building-wide outbreak at Oakwood Park Lodge
Twenty-one outbreaks are ongoing, including one at Oakwood Park Lodge, which declared a building-wide COVID-19 outbreak on Dec. 19. Universal testing on Dec. 15 revealed a significant number of residents and staff had tested positive for the virus.
The Ontario government s database says that 88 residents and 30 staff have tested positive for the virus. Six people have died, it says.
COVID-19 vaccines could come to Hamilton as early as next week, official says
Paul Johnson, the director of the city s emergency operations centre, says if the provincial roll out of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine goes smoothly, health-care workers in Hamilton may get their shots as early as next week.
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Hamilton could get the vaccine as early as next week according to Paul Johnson, director of the city s emergency operations centre.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)