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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 75 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and two more people have died. The new figures bring Ottawa s total COVID-19 case count to 15,637 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March 11, 2020 and 449 deaths. Public Health Ontario said Monday there were 1,286 new cases reported across the province. Ontario also reported nine new deaths provincewide and 1,114 newly resolved cases. No new cases of any variants of concern were confirmed in Ottawa. To date, Ottawa has seen 14 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant and two confirmed cases of the B.1.351 variant. Ottawa s key monitoring figures are moving further toward the Red-Control level. The incidence rate of new cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days is now above 45 (the red threshold is 40) and the average positivity rate has reached 2.5 per cent. The estimated reproduction number is just under the red threshold of 1.2.
Posted: Mar 11, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 11
Bob Nye eats dinner in his room at an Extendicare Medex home in Ottawa. As of March 10, 2021, residents were being told to isolate in their rooms even though they d been given two COVID-19 vaccine doses after two staff members tested positive.(Submitted by Lisa Nye)
OTTAWA The number of known active cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa is now below 500 for the first time this year following a post-Christmas spike that saw cases climb to record levels. Ottawa Public Health says 61 more people in Ottawa have tested positive, bringing the city s pandemic total to 13,446 cases. No new deaths were reported on Wednesday and OPH also added 94 newly resolved cases to its count, bringing the level of active infections down. Across Ontariom 1,172 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday. Health officials also reported 67 new deaths provincewide and 1,745 new resolved cases. Ontario reported 58 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting a slight uptick in day-to-day COVID-19 cases, but an overall downward trend in active cases. According to OPH s COVID-19 dashboard, 27 more people in Ottaw have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the city s pandemic total to 13,385. Figures are frequently lower on Tuesdays due to lower testing data over the weekends, but local figures have been trending lower overall in the past week compared to early January. Ottawa Public Health reported 22 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 46 new cases on Sunday. Across Ontario, public health officials reported 745 new cases provincewide, but warned that the data are skewed by a data migration at Toronto Public Health.