OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting fewer than 40 new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. The public health unit said Tuesday that 39 more people had tested positive for COVID-19, following a case count of 39 more positive tests on Monday. This comes as Ontario reported its lowest daily case count province-wide since last fall. Health officials recorded 699 new COVID-19 cases across Ontario on Tuesday, the lowest figure since Oct. 18, 2020, when 658 new cases were recorded. The Ministry of Health says 20,262 COVID-19 tests were completed in the past 24 hours across the province. Ontario also recorded 1,568 newly resolved cases on Tuesday and said nine more Ontarians had died due to COVID-19.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 39 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, the lowest daily case count since late February. It comes the same day the province reported fewer than 1,000 new cases in a single day for the first time since March. One more person in Ottawa has died due to COVID-19. Sixty-three resident deaths have been reported in Ottawa in May. Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard shows 27,058 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Ottawa since the first case was confirmed on March 11, 2020. 570 residents of the city have lost their lives to the pandemic.
Ottawa Public Health says 52 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, pushing the city beyond 27,000 total cases since the pandemic began.