OTTAWA --
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 46 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and three more people have died.
Provincial officials reported 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed provincewide. Public Health Ontario also reported 19 new deaths in the province and 1,434 newly resolved cases. Ontario reported 29 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Figures from Ottawa Public Health often differ from those of the province due to different data collection times.
Ottawa has also seen five cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant and one case of the B.1.351 variant to date. Ontario was previous reporting six total cases of B.1.1.7 in Ottawa but the figure was adjusted in Saturday's report. The province says, "Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and/or updated and may result in totals differing from past publicly reported case counts."