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With all of the focus on vaccinations, some businesses are choosing to add rapid testing to keep their doors open.
Michael Crockatt is calling on each resident to be an "ambassador" for the National Capital Region on social media in a bid to draw visitors once they feel comfortable travelling again.
OTTAWA -- Amid the third wave of COVID-19, many Ottawa small businesses have been shut down or operating at a limited capacity for over a month now. When the stay-at-home order ends and they're allowed to reopen, businesses will have free access to a new tool – rapid COVID-19 testing. At Savoy Brasserie in Westboro, the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the latest lockdown has taken a toll. "The last month has been the worst of all the lockdown," said Chris Ibey, owner of Savoy Brasserie. "The sales are dipping big time, there’s not as much business, people aren’t coming,...
Fast Facts: Elementary schools reopen in Gatineau and western Quebec for the first time since early April Ottawa Public Health reported 143 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Sunday Ottawa businesses encouraged about access to rapid COVID-19 testing COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa (Ottawa Public Health data): New COVID-19 cases: 143 cases on Sunday Total COVID-19 cases: 25,363 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (previous seven days): 81.3 Positivity rate in Ottawa: 6.6 per cent (April 30 to May 6) Reproduction Number: 0.85 (seven day average) Testing: Who should get a test? Ottawa Public...
Small and medium-sized businesses in the capital will soon have access to free rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 thanks to a new program from the Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Any local business with 150 or fewer employees will be eligible to receive the rapid screening kits, which will be distributed through the Ottawa Board of Trade and Invest Ottawa. The goal of the program is to identify asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the workplace and prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus. “Public health and the health of our economy are interdependent,” OBOT chief execu...