COVID-19 Public Health Measures

• Hamilton Health Sciences postponing surgeries, resuming transfers amid new ‘capacity pressures’

  Hamilton's largest hospital network has once again ramped down it's non-urgent surgical activity amid more pressures due to COVID-19 admissions.

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  Apr 29, 2022
  
• Hamilton ICU doctor believes his bout with COVID could’ve been worse if not for vaccines

  After avoiding COVID for close to two years, Hamilton General’s ICU boss says he was bedridden for a couple days in March after testing positive.

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  Apr 25, 2022
  
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• Hamilton mayor Fred Eisenberger tests positive for COVID-19

  A release issued by Fred Eisenberger's office on Wednesday morning says the mayor received a positive test result Tuesday night and is self-isolating.

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  Apr 13, 2022
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• COVID-19: Hamilton’s vaccination program not likely to change amid eligibility for fourth doses

  Ontarians aged 60 and older as well as First Nations Inuit and Métis individuals will be eligible to get their second booster shot on April 7 starting at 8 a.m.

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  Apr 6, 2022
• COVID-19: Hamilton, Niagara medical officers hope residents will choose to keep masks

  Two top docs anticipate many will keep donning face coverings in public despite Ontario’s lifting a mandate on Monday.

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  Mar 22, 2022
• Trucks heading to U.S. finally get through Alberta border protests at Coutts

  Demonstrators began parking their vehicles near the Coutts border crossing Saturday in solidarity with events in Ottawa and elsewhere to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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  Feb 3, 2022
• Sparse COVID-19 data could lead Alberta to ‘fly blind’ in pandemic: experts

  Alberta will be winding down mass coronavirus testing this month, and there are worries over the future of COVID-19 data in the province.

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  Aug 10, 2021
• City of Edmonton announces new measures to address rise in COVID-19 cases

  One week after Alberta Health announced voluntary measures for Edmonton, the city announced additional steps to address the uptick in COVID-19 cases.

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  Oct 15, 2020
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• How New Brunswick’s plan to recover from COVID-19 works

  That 'new normal' will be guided by a series of colour-coded health alert levels -- red, orange, yellow and green -- as well as a final lockdown stage. 

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  Apr 25, 2020