OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 58 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19. It s a slight increase over figures released on Friday, but it s also the 16th day in a row that Ottawa has seen fewer than 100 new cases. The city has seen 13,597 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. No new deaths were reported on Saturday, leaving the city s pandemic death toll at 422 residents. Weekly trends have been on the decline lately, with Ottawa seeing its lowest positivity rate since Christmas this week. Saturday s update pushed the weekly per capita case rate to just under 30 cases per 100,000 residents, according to Ottawa Public Health data.
OTTAWA One day after seeing its lowest daily case count in six weeks, Ottawa is seeing an uptick in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases in the city. However, trends including the number of active cases and the weekly average of cases per capita continue to improve. The testing positivity rate has also dropped below three per cent. Ottawa Public Health said 72 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19. No new deaths were reported in Ottawa on Wednesday, leaving the city s pandemic death toll at 420 residents.
1,670 new cases were reported across Ontario on Wednesday, the province s lowest daily case count in two months. The province also reported 49 new deaths and 2,725 new resolved cases provincewide.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in the city since mid-December. OPH says 23 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the city s pandemic total to 13,000 cases. One new death was also reported in Ottawa on Tuesday. There have been 420 COVID-19 related deaths in Ottawa since the pandemic began. Public Health Ontario also reported 63 new COVID-19 related deaths in the province and 2,261 new resolved cases. The figures from Ottawa Public Health often differ from Public Health Ontario due to different data collection times. The two health units were only apart by two cases in terms of their pandemic totals on Monday. Ottawa Public Health s total number of cases on Monday was 12,977, versus 12,979 reported by the province. That gap has now grown to 11 cases, with Ontario s total at 13,011 and Ottawa s at 13,000.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest daily COVID-19 case count in nearly a month. The public health unit said 48 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, a figure not seen since Dec. 29, 2020. No new deaths were reported for a second day in a row, leaving the city s pandemic death toll at 419 residents. Public Health Ontario reported 1,958 new cases of COVID-19 reported across the province. Ontario also reported 43 new deaths and 2,448 new resolved cases on Monday. The province added 51 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Figures from the province and from OPH often differ due to different data collection times, but each respective authority s total cases are similar, with Ontario reporting 12,979 cases versus Ottawa Public Health s 12,977.