OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is blaming a large number of case reports late Wednesday for a major discrepancy in reported new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa. Meantime, Ontario set two new COVID-19 records on Thursday for total number of cases and deaths linked to the virus on a single day. Health officials confirmed a one-day record 3,519 cases of COVID-19 across Ontario on Thursday, up from 3,266 infections reported on Wednesday. Eighty-nine more deaths related to COVID-19 were reported, a one-day high. There are 891 new cases in Toronto, 569 in Peel Region, 457 in York Region and 174 in Durham Region. Windsor-Essex County reported 208 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting another jump in new COVID-19 cases and an increase in the per capita rate of infection. OPH said Saturday 133 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, up from 122 new cases on Friday. That increase boosted the per capita rate in the last seven days to more than 55 cases per 100,000 population. The estimated reproduction number the number of additional people each person with COVID-19 infects also increased on Saturday. Across Ontario, the province reported a record-breaking 3,363 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, as well as 2,476 on Friday. The province also reported 95 new deaths linked to COVID-19 in the past 48 hours, with 51 new deaths reported on Friday and 44 new deaths reported on Saturday.
OTTAWA A COVID-19 outbreak at a City of Ottawa long-term care home hard hit by novel coronavirus is over. Ottawa Public Health declared the COVID-19 outbreak over at Extendicare Starwood on Wednesday. Since the outbreak was declared on Sept. 25, 134 residents and 53 staff members tested positive for novel coronavirus. Ottawa Public Health reports 26 residents died after testing positive for COVID-19. In October, the Ottawa Hospital began providing enhanced support to the home. The Ministry of Long-Term Care said a new management agreement would allow the Ottawa Hospital to address the current spread of COVID-19 in the home, help stabilize the situation and return the home to normal operations.
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Originally from the Philippines, Ana Lyn has lived in Canada for three years and has worked at the Westwood retirement home on Carling Avenue for nearly as long.
On Sunday, for her daughterâs birthday, her family will enjoy their first-ever holiday turkey.
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The bird is one of more than 10,000 being gifted to frontline health-care workers across the province by Ontario union SEIU Healthcare. Described as âa small token of appreciation for Ontarioâs health-care heroes,â the initiative invited members to pre-register for turkeys in early December and to pick them up over the weekend at various grocery stores.
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Originally from the Philippines, Ana Lyn has lived in Canada for three years and has worked at the Westwood retirement home on Carling Avenue for nearly as long.
On Sunday, for her daughter’s birthday, her family will enjoy their first-ever holiday turkey.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Try refreshing your browser, or 10,000 turkeys for health-care heroes who spent 2020 on the pandemic frontlines Back to video
The bird is one of more than 10,000 being gifted to frontline health-care workers across the province by Ontario union SEIU Healthcare. Described as “a small token of appreciation for Ontario’s health-care heroes,” the initiative invited members to pre-register for turkeys in early December and to pick them up over the weekend at various grocery stores.