COVID-19: Hamilton reports 7 new cases ahead of change to new reporting system

As of Friday (August 21), there have been 966 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton, according to data on the City of Hamilton’s website.

As of Friday (August 21), there have been 966 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Hamilton, according to data on the City of Hamilton’s website.

This is up from 959 from (seven cases) from Thursday’s reporting.

According to the data, there are believed to be 50 active cases in the community at the moment but no active outbreaks of the virus are being reported at any of Hamilton’s long-term or congregate-care facilities.

Approximately 91 per cent of local cases have been resolved (864 of Hamilton’s overall cases are reported as being resolved), while the city’s death toll remains 45.

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Hamilton’s Public Health Service is currently in the process of changing up the way they report the city’s daily COVID-19 numbers.

The will be adapting the new Ministry of Health mandated Case and Contact Management (CCM) system for COVID-19 case and contact management and tracing, which somewhat streamlines the process for reporting.

Meanwhile, Ontario reported 131 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and three new deaths related to the novel coronavirus, as well as 106 newly resolved cases.

The total number of cases now stands at 41,179, which includes 2,796 deaths and 37,397 cases marked as resolved.

Health Minister Christine Elliott said that due to an issue with province’s reporting system, data that was not available Thursday from 11 of Ontario’s 34 public health units was added Friday.

Because of that reporting lag, the new numbers are an “overestimation” of the daily case count, Elliott said.

The province was able to complete 28,073 tests over the previous day, she said.