COVID-19 cases on Thursday and one death at a Waterdown retirement home.Public health says the death was tied to the outbreak at Alexander Place on Parkside Drive which began on Jan.
13. Nine people have tested positive at the home with Thursday’s reported death the facility’s first in the outbreak. The deceased was a person in their 80s.The city has had 244 virus-related deaths since the pandemic began in March of last year.Hamilton now has 48 outbreaks that have accounted for more than 750 COVID-19 cases and 51 deaths.The latest outbreak, which was declared on Tuesday, involves three staff at Pipeflo Contracting in Central Hamilton.