Four more recoveries today now push the total number of active cases in the region to 7.
Hospital staff continue to care for five local COVID-19 patients, with two in the ICU and one on a ventilator.
A total of 101,896 vaccine doses have been administered in the region to date.
55 per cent of residents have received one dose
five per cent are fully immunized
Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health is reporting a total of 16 active COVID-19 cases, after adding four new cases today.
The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit is once again reporting no new cases in Northumberland. That county has a total of 9 active COVID-19 cases.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, the highest one-day COVID-19 case total this week. No new deaths linked to the virus were announced on Friday. Twenty-six of the 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday involved residents under the age of 30. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 27,234 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 574 deaths. The 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa is the highest one-day increase since 61 new cases were reported on Saturday. There were 40 cases in Ottawa on Thursday and 43 cases on Wednesday.
With millions of vaccines expected to be delivered in coming weeks to Ontario, the province is opening up bookings at vaccine clinics next Monday for second…