65 new cases of COVID-19 reported
Outbreak at The Rosslyn worst of 10 in city, with all 64 residents, 19 staff infected
Hamilton public health reported a total of 65 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city jumped to 586 Monday — up from 521 Friday. There are an additional seven probable cases.
The worst ongoing outbreak in the city is from The Rosslyn Retirement Residence on King Street East, which has a total of 83 confirmed COVID-19 cases — 64 residents and 19 staff — as of Monday.
The residence has a 64-bed capacity.
On Friday and Saturday, 52 residents from the home were transferred to Hamilton hospitals after an outbreak of COVID-19 at the facility. Twelve residents had already been hospitalized. The city says the facility is now empty.
Residents at The Rosslyn were transferred to hospitals in the city starting at 4:45 p.m. Friday, with the last patient arriving at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton at 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Of the 52 residents, 27 were sent to St. Joe’s and 25 to Hamilton Health Sciences.
At the time of the transfer, 49 residents, as well as 13 staff members, had tested positive for COVID-19.
Health officials said Saturday the families of the patients who were transferred had been notified.
One resident, a 70-year-old man, died Thursday in hospital. The total number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Hamilton increased by 55 — from 72 to 127 — since Friday.
“This has put stress on the hospital resources as it would at any time when we have a significant increase in patient volumes,” a spokesperson for St.
Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton said in an email. “That being said we have planned for this and developed a surge plan to respond to this type of situation.”
The latest COVID-19 death, a 60-year-old man who died in the community, was reported Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths in the city to 27.
The death was not related to any institutional outbreak in the city.
There are currently 10 ongoing outbreaks in Hamilton at retirement residences and
long-term-care facilities. The latest outbreak was declared May15 at Macassa Lodge, one of two long-term-care facilities run by the City of Hamilton. One staff member has tested positive for COVID-19.
There are additional ongoing outbreaks at Grace Villa, Village of Wentworth Heights, Extendicare Hamilton, Arbour Creek Care Centre, Blackadar Continuing Care Centre, The Rosslyn, Idlewyld Manor, Wentworth Lodge, and Dundurn Place Care Centre.
However, there are no active cases at Wentworth Lodge, as the cases that put the facility into outbreak status were discovered to be false positives.
Outbreaks at Regina Gardens
and Heritage Green Nursing Home were declared over on May 15.
In Hamilton, 33 per cent of the confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 were among adults 65 and up.
In Halton Region, 14 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported Monday, bringing the total to 577. There are an additional 70 probable cases. No new deaths have been reported in Halton.
Three new institutional outbreaks were declared in Halton over the weekend. On Saturday, an outbreak was declared at Wyndham Manor in Oakville, where one resident is infected. Outbreaks were also declared at Bennett Centre in Halton
Hills, with one confirmed case, and at Creek Way Village in Burlington, with two confirmed cases, on Sunday.
One new positive case was also reported in Haldimand-Norfolk Monday. The total number of positive cases in HaldimandNorfolk
is 206. One new death was reported in HaldimandNorfolk Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths to 31.