Ontario announces 100 new cases of COVID-19

Ontario has announced 100 new cases of COIVD-19, bringing the provincial total to 688.

It is the largest single-day spike in cases so far.

Four Hamilton residents are among the new cases including a woman in her 50s, a woman in her 40s, and two women in their 70s. The province did not have information on where the women contracted the virus.

Halton Region has four new cases including two men in their 30s and 40s who became infected through close contact, a woman in her 70s who recently travelled to Spain, and another man in his 30s. It is not known how the fourth case caught the virus.

A Niagara woman in her 40s who recently to the United States has also been confirmed positive of the virus.

Of the new cases, five people are currently in hospital including a woman in her 20s from Peel Region. Thirty-one of the new cases are listed as pending.

On Tuesday, Hamilton announced its first death related to the virus.

An elderly woman died Tuesday morning at St. Joseph’s hospital. She had started displaying symptoms of COVID-19 while visiting the hospital for scheduled treatment last Monday.

The 80-year-old woman lived at Heritage Green nursing home in Stoney Creek where the city declared an outbreak over the weekend after a second person living at the home tested positive.

The province says nine people have died as a result of COVID-19, while eight cases have been resolved. More than 10,000 cases are currently under investigation.