CBC Ottawa s latest roundup of key updates during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
Samira Babour, 11, returns home after getting a COVID-19 test. I m so scared. I don t want to get my family sick. (Matthew Kupfer/CBC)
Families in Ottawa s Banff-Ledbury community are living closer to COVID-19 than those in other neighbourhoods, with fewer degrees of separation between known cases in a part of the city that s been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
According to the the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study (ONS), an interdisciplinary population health study administered by the University of Ottawa that utilizes data from Ottawa Public Health (OPH), the Ledbury-Heron Gate-Ridgemont area had the city s highest rate of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Nov. 20.