OTTAWA Ottawa learns it will reopen in Orange status, a teen driver is clocked at a dangerously high rate of speed, and a man is accused of setting a fire at Canada Revenue Agency headquarters. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the five most viewed stories on our website this week. Ottawa learned this week that the city will be moved back into the Orange-Restrict level under Ontario s COVID-19 framework when the provincial stay-at-home order lifts after Family Day. On Monday, we learned the stay-at-home order would be extended to 12:01 a.m. Feb. 16 for the Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, and Leeds, Grenville and Lanark health units, but that Kingston, Renfrew, and Prince Edward Counties would move to the Green-Prevent status on Feb. 10.
The two new cases were both identified off-campus.
There are three active cases of the virus in the off-campus community, according to the University’s COVID-19 tracker. There have been a total of 91 cases reported since Aug. 31, including 81 off-campus and 10 in residence.
The University is still requesting students, staff, and faculty who leave the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A), Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, and Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark region for essential reasons self-isolate for 14 days upon their return.
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“As we approach the reading week break, please be aware that public health guidance advises that all unnecessary travel should continue to be avoided and that many regions outside the KFL&A region remain under a stay at home order,” Mark Green, provost and vice-principal (academic) wrote in an email on Feb. 8. “The increase in COVID-19 variants in the province means that we all need to remain vigilant.”