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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
An Ottawa artist, architect and print maker, Otto Graser died from COVID-19 two weeks after returning from a springtime trip to France. He was 87.
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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
An Ottawa artist, architect and print maker, Otto Graser died from COVID-19 two weeks after returning from a springtime trip to France. He was 87.
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Ottawaâs first reported case of COVID-19 came on Feb. 10, more than two months after the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease revealed itself to the world.
Ten days passed before Ottawaâs second case arose, then two more days before the third. By the end of February, there were five cases here. It was not until later, however, that Ottawa Public Health was able to confirm COVIDâs presence in the city.
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Ottawaâs first reported case of COVID-19 came on Feb. 10, more than two months after the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease revealed itself to the world.
Ten days passed before Ottawaâs second case arose, then two more days before the third. By the end of February, there were five cases here. It was not until later, however, that Ottawa Public Health was able to confirm COVIDâs presence in the city.
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