OTTAWA There is a low daily COVID-19 case count in Ottawa Wednesday, so low it s a negative figure, and Ottawa Public Health has offered an explanation. OPH reduced the total case count for the city by one case, to 27,334, announcing a new daily update of -1 cases. In a Twitter thread after the dashboard was updated, the health unit said there were actually 20 new cases added Wednesday, but 21 cases were removed from the local total. Every case goes through a quality assurance process. It takes a lot of time & effort, especially when you re in the middle of another resurgence and reporting 300+ cases per day. Sometimes, their work will find that a case previously reported in Ottawa wasn t ours, OPH said on Twitter.
Ottawa Public Health says 31 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, a drop from Friday s total, but three more people in Ottawa have died due to COVID-19.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, the highest one-day COVID-19 case total this week. No new deaths linked to the virus were announced on Friday. Twenty-six of the 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday involved residents under the age of 30. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, 2020, there have been 27,234 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 574 deaths. The 55 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa is the highest one-day increase since 61 new cases were reported on Saturday. There were 40 cases in Ottawa on Thursday and 43 cases on Wednesday.