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.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting another drop in active cases of COVID-19 and the testing positivity rate in Ottawa. OPH added 22 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday. On Sunday, Ottawa Public Health reported 46 new cases. According to OPH s COVID-19 dashboard, the city has seen 13,358 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the pandemic began. No new deaths were reported in Ottawa on Monday. The pandemic death toll from COVID-19 is 422 residents. On Sunday, Ottawa s key COVID-19 indicators fell out of the Red zone in Ontario s COVID-19 restriction system. The COVID-19 rate per 100,000 dropped to 38.9 cases, down from 42.5 cases per 100,000 on Saturday. Under Ontario s COVID-19 response framework, the guidelines for the red-control zone is more than 40 cases per 100,000 and a positivity rate of 2.5 per cent.