OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 139 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. Across Ontario, health officials reported 3,436 new cases of COVID-19, a drop compared to the more than 3,700 cases reported on Sunday. The province also reported 3,623 newly resolved cases and said 16 more Ontarians have died from COVID-19. Public Health Ontario reported 130 new cases in Ottawa on Monday. Figures from OPH often differ from those provided by Public Health Ontario because the health units pull data for their respective daily reports at different times of the day. According to Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard, the city has seen 24,657 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began and 510 residents of Ottawa have died of the disease.
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Still no word whether Ontario’s children will return to in-class learning after the stay-at-home order is lifted May 20.
In a live Queen’s Park briefing Tuesday, Minister of Education Stephen Lecce repeatedly deferred any direction on school re-openings to Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health.
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“For so many people in the province, we want to get kids in school. But look, the fact of the matter is the chief medical officer of health of Ontario’s advice has not changed to the government,” Lecce told reporters in the briefing.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 94 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time fewer than 100 new cases were reported in a single day since March. The new figure brings the city s pandemic total to 24,751 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19. The last time Ottawa Public Health reported fewer than 100 daily cases of COVID-19 was on March 24, when it reported 80 new cases. Cases climbed dramatically in early April, peaked at 370 daily cases on April 11 and 15, and then began to decline. However, five more people in Ottawa have died from the virus. To date, 515 residents have died during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ottawa Public Health says 94 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time fewer than 100 new cases were reported in a single day since March.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 139 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. Across Ontario, health officials reported 3,436 new cases of COVID-19, a drop compared to the more than 3,700 cases reported on Sunday. The province also reported 3,623 newly resolved cases and said 16 more Ontarians have died from COVID-19. Public Health Ontario reported 130 new cases in Ottawa on Monday. Figures from OPH often differ from those provided by Public Health Ontario because the health units pull data for their respective daily reports at different times of the day. According to Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard, the city has seen 24,657 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began and 510 residents of Ottawa have died of the disease.