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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 75 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and two more people have died. The new figures bring Ottawa s total COVID-19 case count to 15,637 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March 11, 2020 and 449 deaths. Public Health Ontario said Monday there were 1,286 new cases reported across the province. Ontario also reported nine new deaths provincewide and 1,114 newly resolved cases. No new cases of any variants of concern were confirmed in Ottawa. To date, Ottawa has seen 14 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant and two confirmed cases of the B.1.351 variant. Ottawa s key monitoring figures are moving further toward the Red-Control level. The incidence rate of new cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days is now above 45 (the red threshold is 40) and the average positivity rate has reached 2.5 per cent. The estimated reproduction number is just under the red threshold of 1.2.