OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting six more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19, the highest single-day increase in reported deaths in the capital since mid-January. No other information has been released about the deaths. Sixty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Friday. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 26,425 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 545 deaths. The 68 new cases follows 89 new cases on Thursday and 107 cases on Wednesday. Across Ontario, there are 1,890 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19. Health officials reported 469 cases in Toronto, 468 cases in Peel Region and 165 cases in York Region.