News Releases

HAMILTON, ON – The Hamilton healthcare partners continue to make progress in vaccinating members of the community who fall into the Province’s COVID-19 Vaccination Framework. To date, Hamilton healthcare partners have administered 837,796 doses of COVD-19 vaccine – with 83.8 per cent of eligible Hamiltonians receiving a vaccine to date and 78.5 per cent fully vaccinated.

HAMILTON, ON - The Hamilton healthcare partners continue to make progress in vaccinating members of the community who fall into the Province’s COVID-19 Vaccination Framework. To date, Hamilton healthcare partners have administered 828,001 doses of COVD-19 vaccine – with 83.3 per cent of eligible Hamiltonians receiving a vaccine to date and 77.4 per cent fully vaccinated.

HAMILTON, ON – Last month, Hamilton City Council approved a policy that requires all staff to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination status by September 15, 2021. As of today, approximately 67 per cent of employees have reported in with information related to the policy, with approximately 97 per cent of those employees reporting they are fully vaccinated. While we are pleased that so many of the employees who met the first deadline in the policy are vaccinated, we are concerned that more staff did not verify their vaccination status with the City.

HAMILTON, ON - The Hamilton healthcare partners continue to make progress in vaccinating members of the community who fall into the Province’s COVID-19 Vaccination Framework. To date, Hamilton healthcare partners have administered 795,766 doses of COVD-19 vaccine – with 81 per cent of eligible Hamiltonians receiving a vaccine to date and 73.7 per cent fully vaccinated.

HAMILTON, ON - Hamilton’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Elizabeth Richardson, is strongly recommending that local employers address the need for a COVID-19 workplace vaccination policy to protect their employees and their customers from COVID-19 and the Delta variant. These workplace COVID-19 vaccination policies should explain their purpose, specific actions employees must take, including providing proof of COVID-19 vaccination status or a medical exemption, and timelines. Workplace vaccination policies should require at minimum:

HAMILTON, ON – The Hamilton healthcare partners continue to make progress in vaccinating members of the community who fall into the Province’s COVID-19 Vaccination Framework. To date, Hamilton healthcare partners have administered 776,269 doses of COVD-19 vaccine – with 79.2 per cent of eligible Hamiltonians receiving a vaccine to date and 71.7 per cent fully vaccinated.

HAMILTON, ON – As cases have risen in Hamilton, in Ontario, and across the country over the past days and weeks, we’ve been engaged in a conversation about how to best prepare ourselves for a fourth wave of COVID-19. For it’s part, the City of Hamilton is exploring a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination verification policy requiring all City of Hamilton employees to receive both doses of the vaccine.

Hamilton Public Health Services, in partnership with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, will be holding mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinics during Tiger-Cats practices at Tim Hortons Field on August 23 and 24 (10:30 am to 2 pm), as well as August 25 (10:30 am to 1 pm), providing fans a unique opportunity to get vaccinated, watch practice and win great prizes.

HAMILTON, ON – Today, Mayors and Chairs from the 11 largest municipal governments across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area held their regular weekly meeting to discuss the ongoing response to COVID-19 across the region. The Mayors and Chairs welcomed the coming move by the Government of Ontario to mandate vaccines for hospital and long-term care workers. This would be a good step forward that will better protect some of our most vulnerable residents and our frontline heroes who work in hospitals and long-term care homes.