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.
As the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) struggles with what is currently the city's largest COVID-19 outbreak, one advocate says public health officials aren't doing enough to ensure inmates are vaccinated.