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Fast Facts: Eastern Ontario joining Ottawa in the orange-restrict level of the COVID-19 restrictions Mayor Jim Watson says Ottawa Public Health will contact workers in Ottawa s long-term care homes over the weekend to receive the COVID-19 vaccine 46 cases of COVID-19 traced to school dormitory in eastern Ontario 45 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, along with one new death linked to the virus Santa Claus granted COVID-19 travel exemption to visit Ottawa Christmas Eve
COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa:
New cases: 45 cases on Friday
Total COVID-19: 8,939
Positivity rate in Ottawa: 1.5 per cent (Dec 4-10)
Reproduction Number: 1.0 (seven day average)
OTTAWA Forty-six cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a dormitory at a school in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. Eastern Ontario Medical Officer of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis told reporters there is a COVID-19 outbreak at the Al-Rashid Islamic Institute on Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County Road 2, near Cornwall Dr. Roumeliotis would only say the outbreak is in a dormitory at the Al-Rashid Islamic Institute. We re not sure how it happened, said Dr. Roumeliotis, when asked if the Eastern Ontario Health Unit knew how the COVID-19 outbreak started. We think it was a staff (member) that was symptomatic and spread it within the dorm. We re working with them and we re working closely to ensure that everybody s isolated.
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