Ontario’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that Hamilton, Ont., has five new confirmed positive tests for COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, in the city as of Tuesday morning.
Hamilton now has a total of 15 positive cases. No further details have been disclosed by the city or province. It’s the second day in a row the city has seen its caseload increase by five.
On Monday, Mayor Fred Eisenberger revealed that those cases were all related to travel and that the infected are in self-isolation.
Many of the city’s 15 cases are still in the early stages of investigations but it’s believed they were all travel-related with no community transmission, according to public health.