<\/p>\n Hamilton has two new cases of COVID-19 today, and three fewer patients are in hospital from the virus compared to last week.<\/p>\n The city is reporting 460\u00a0cases of COVID-19 today, with 453\u00a0confirmed and seven probable. Ten more people have recovered (297 over 287 the day before)\u00a0and the death toll remains at 21.<\/p>\n There are also 25 people\u00a0in hospital \u2014 15 at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), 10 at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton \u2014with the virus. Last week, there were 28. HHS’s occupancy rate is\u00a081 per cent.<\/p>\n Dr. Elizabeth Richardson said Monday that recoveries are outpacing new cases, which is a good sign.<\/p>\n “We’re having cases from early on that are resolving, and \u2026 we’re not replacing them,” she said.<\/p>\n “So that’s a very good sign that we’re moving past the peak \u2014 that things are levelling out, if not declining.”<\/p>\n There are still 10 institutional outbreaks and two community outbreaks. A deadly outbreak at Cardinal Retirement Home has been declared over. All told, seven residents died there, and 65 residents and staff tested positive.<\/p>\n City bylaw officers haven’t laid any new tickets for lack of physical distancing, groups of more than five or businesses being open when they shouldn’t be. In total, 132 fines have been laid.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here’s what’s happening elsewhere:<\/p>\n The Brant County Health Unit reports 99 cases, which has been steady for three days. Seventy-five people have recovered and three people have died.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dr. Elizabeth Urbantke, medical officer of health for Brant and Brantford, says four of those cases resulted from mass COVID-19 tests in eight long-term care homes and three retirement homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Over the past week, Urbantke said, “we saw our lowest rate of increase for new COVID-19 cases\u00a0since the week beginning March 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n But “again, I can’t stress enough, this doesn’t mean we should disregard any recommended orders or recommendations in place right now. It does however show that the measures we have in place are working and we are seeing our efforts pay off. This will be a gradual road back to normalcy.”<\/p>\n There are outbreaks at\u00a0Brierwood Gardens (one staff case), Telfer Place (one resident) and St. Joseph’s Lifecare Centre (two staff).<\/p>\n As the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit continues to make headlines over banning out-of-area cottagers from visiting their secondary residences in the two counties, the number of COVID-19 cases has remained stagnant.<\/p>\n The area has 196 confirmed cases of COVID-19, which has been the same since Sunday.\u00a0Fifty-four people have recovered and 30 have died. Twenty-seven of those deaths, and 101 of the cases, were at Anson Place Care Centre in Hagersville.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5556192.1588700451!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/light.jpg\")
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