OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting six more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19, the highest single-day increase in reported deaths in the capital since mid-January. No other information has been released about the deaths. Sixty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Friday. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 26,425 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 545 deaths. The 68 new cases follows 89 new cases on Thursday and 107 cases on Wednesday. Across Ontario, there are 1,890 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19. Health officials reported 469 cases in Toronto, 468 cases in Peel Region and 165 cases in York Region.
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People who’ve already received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are now allowed to get their second doses, provincial officials say.
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, said Friday those who received their first dose of AstraZeneca between March 10 and March 19 during a pilot project at pharmacies and some doctor’s offices in some areas will be first in line to receive their second shots.
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The initial pilot ran in early March in 325 pharmacies in Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.