OTTAWA --
Ottawa Public Health says 48 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died.
Ottawa has been posting relatively low numbers compared to other large urban centres in Ontario, but Wednesday's report is a notable jump from the 16 new cases Ottawa Public Health reported on Tuesday.
Across Ontario, there are 2,408 new cases and 41 new deaths. There are 629 new cases in Toronto, 448 in Peel, 234 in Windsor-Essex County, 190 in York Region and 150 in Hamilton, Ontario's lockdown regions.
A provincewide lockdown begins at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 26.
According to Ottawa Public Health's COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 9,448 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city since the pandemic began.