OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 20 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, day one of relaxed COVID-19 restrictions across the province. No new deaths were reported in Ottawa on Friday. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 27,379 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 584 deaths. The 20 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday follows 25 new cases on Thursday and 20 cases on Wednesday. As 12:01 a.m., Ontario entered Step 1 of the Roadmap to Reopen plan, allowing restaurant patios and non-essential businesses to reopen. Outdoor gatherings of up to 10 people are permitted.
OTTAWA There is a low daily COVID-19 case count in Ottawa Wednesday, so low it s a negative figure, and Ottawa Public Health has offered an explanation. OPH reduced the total case count for the city by one case, to 27,334, announcing a new daily update of -1 cases. In a Twitter thread after the dashboard was updated, the health unit said there were actually 20 new cases added Wednesday, but 21 cases were removed from the local total. Every case goes through a quality assurance process. It takes a lot of time & effort, especially when you re in the middle of another resurgence and reporting 300+ cases per day. Sometimes, their work will find that a case previously reported in Ottawa wasn t ours, OPH said on Twitter.
Ottawa Public Health says 31 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, a drop from Friday s total, but three more people in Ottawa have died due to COVID-19.