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Hastings-Prince Edward’s COVID-19 activity remains relatively high, with continued spread amid both encouraging and concerning signs.
In a telephone interview Tuesday, Dr. Ethan Toumishey of Hastings Prince Edward Public Health said local statistics have improved since April yet variants of the virus continue to cause troubling trends.
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He said the region would, if not for the provincial lockdown, likely be at the orange level of Ontario’s coronavirus framework. For much of April it would have been a red zone.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 143 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and two more people have died. According to OPH s COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 25,363 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the first case was confirmed on March 11, 2020 and 523 residents have died. The daily case count Sunday was slightly higher than the 112 cases reported on Saturday, but weekly monitoring trends continue to see a downward decline, with the incidence rate per 100,000 population below 90. The estimated reproduction number, which measures how many additional people each person with COVID-19 infects, has been below 1 since the middle of April, which suggests that the spread of the virus is slowing down.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 83 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and two more people have died. The new case count is the lowest so far this month, after OPH reported 94 cases on May 4. Daily case counts have otherwise been in the triple digits since late March. According to Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 25,446 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the capital since the pandemic began. The two new deaths reported Monday bring the city s pandemic death toll to 525 residents. There were 2,716 new cases of COVID-19 reported across Ontario on Monday. The province also reported 19 more residents dying from COVID-19 and said there are 3,110 newly resolved cases. Public Health Ontario reported 86 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Figures from OPH often differ from those provided by Public Health Ontario because the two health units pull data for their respective daily reports at different times.
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That leaves the region with a total of 81 active COVID-19 cases, between the two counties.
Health officials have also added 17 more variants of concern to the list. There have now been a total of 375 voc’s identified since the start of the pandemic. A worrying trend, considering there has been a total of 1,018 cases of the virus since March of last year.
Hospital staff are caring for 18 local patients in hospital, with eight in the ICU, and six on a ventilator.
The six outbreaks in the community continue.
A total of 66,763 vaccine doses have been administered locally. A total of 62,145 people or 37 per cent of the population has received one dose. There are 4,618 people now fully vaccinated, representing three per cent of the population.