OTTAWA --
Sixty-four more Ottawa residents have tested positive for COVID-19, while Ontario set a new record for cases of novel coronavirus across the province.
Ottawa Public Health reported 64 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Wednesday. There are no new deaths in Ottawa linked to COVID-19.
The daily COVID-19 report shows a spike in Ottawa's cases per 100,000 and percent positivity rate. Public health reports Ottawa's percent positivity rate was 2.5 per cent for the period of Dec. 23-29, while the seven-day average for COVID-19 cases has increased to 40.1 cases per 100,000.
Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 9,866 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 392 deaths.