This article, from May 26, has details on the City’s ongoing monitoring of mosquito larvae and possible control measures to help prevent the spread of West Nile Virus.
The City’s Public Health Services is monitoring mosquito larvae (immature mosquitoes) in standing surface water on City land within the municipality’s boundaries, if if control measures dictate, will apply larvicide in order to prevent the development of the West Nile Virus.
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Continue reading “Notice of application of larvicides to City of Hamilton for West Nile Virus control”This article, from May 3, has information on how Public Health will identify and manage COVID-19 outbreaks in Hamilton workplaces.
City of Hamilton Public Health Services has issued a Health Promotion and Protection Act Section 22 Class Order, to break the chain of transmission within local workplaces where COVID-19 or its variants are determined to be spreading.
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Continue reading “Public Health Services issues Class Order to identify and manage COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces”This article from February 19 has updated information on local vaccination rollout.
Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, Hamilton’s Medical Officer of Health, updated the Board of Health Committee with the updated vaccination plan for vulnerable residents and front-line workers.
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Continue reading “COVID-19 Vaccination Program Update”This article, from January 29, has information about a COVID email phishing scam targeting seniors.
Public Health is advising the community of reports of a COVID-19 email/phishing scam targeting seniors around the city.
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Continue reading “Public Health warning residents about phishing scam”This article, from November 12, contains information about catch-up clinics available for Grade 7 & 8 students across the city.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Grade 7 school vaccine clinics that were scheduled to occur between April and June 2020 were cancelled by Hamilton Public Health Services.
This post contains information about important catch-up clinics being run for students.
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Continue reading ““Catch-up clinics” now available for current Grade 7 & 8 students”This article, from August 28, contains information about the hiring of 19 public health nurses to help reopen local schools.
Hamilton’s medical officer of health, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, announced on Thursday that the city will be looking to hire 19 nurses with its share of the provincially-funded money slated for nurses to help reopen schools across the city.
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This article contains the latest information from City of Hamilton Public Health regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, including video of City press conferences from March 16th & 17th and information on social distancing and the City’s order to close all restaurants, bars and nightclubs effective immediately.
As of Tuesday March 17th, 2020 there are 15 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the City of Hamilton.
The Hamilton Spectator has more details here.
Further, Hamilton Public Health Services (PHS) has identified one new COVID-19 case that is not travel related and may indicate person to person transmission within the community.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a very serious and evolving public health concern in Hamilton. This article contains the latest information for Hamilton residents.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently confirmed that the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has surpassed one hundred thousand.
The City of Hamilton recognizes that the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a very serious and evolving public health concern.
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Continue reading “Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 Hamilton Update”Public health officials in Hamilton and around the world are keeping a close eye on developments with respect to the ongoing outbreak caused by a Novel (new) Coronavirus first identified in pneumonia patients in Wuhan, China.
Additional cases have been reported in other countries, including Canada.
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