Ottawa Public Health is reporting 112 new COVID-19 cases Saturday and one new death.
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Posted: May 08, 2021 2:54 PM ET | Last Updated: May 8
An UberEats delivery person wears a mask while biking through downtown Ottawa earlier this month. On Saturday, the nation s capital saw 112 new cases of COVID-19 and one more death.(Andrew Lee/CBC)
Ottawa Public Health says 112 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. Two cases of the P.1 variant have been reported.
We’ve hit a grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, as the number of new cases continues to climb locally.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health has recorded now over 1,000 cases of the virus, since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
The region has seen a total of 1,004 cases overall, as of today.
Health officials are reporting 17 new cases today, and 10 more recoveries. Seven of the new cases reported are listed as variants of concern.
There are now a total of 81 active COVID-19 cases between the two counties.
Hospital staff are treating 17 local COVID-19 patients, with six in ICU and six on a ventilator.
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Free rapid antigen tests will be given to workers in small- and medium-sized businesses In Quinte West and across the province in a new COVID-19 Rapid Screening Initiative by Ontario in partnership with Ottawa and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
The tests will be provided to businesses through local chamber offices, the province said Friday to screen for “asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the workplace that might otherwise be missed, helping to keep workers and their families safe and businesses open.”
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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 110 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, pushing Ottawa s total COVID-19 case count past 25,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. One new death linked to the virus was announced. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 25,108 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 520 deaths. The 110 new cases in Ottawa on Friday follows 106 new cases on Thursday and 141 cases on Wednesday. Public Health Ontario reported 3,166 cases of COVID-19 in Ontario. There are 876 new cases in Toronto, 817 in Peel Region, 300 in York Region and 205 in Durham. Public Health Ontario reported 106 new cases in Ottawa on Friday. There is sometimes a discrepancy in COVID-19 numbers between Public Health Ontario and Ottawa Public Health based on when the data is collected.