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Fast Facts: Eastern Ontario joining Ottawa in the orange-restrict level of the COVID-19 restrictions Mayor Jim Watson says Ottawa Public Health will contact workers in Ottawa s long-term care homes over the weekend to receive the COVID-19 vaccine 46 cases of COVID-19 traced to school dormitory in eastern Ontario 45 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, along with one new death linked to the virus Santa Claus granted COVID-19 travel exemption to visit Ottawa Christmas Eve
COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa:
New cases: 45 cases on Friday
Total COVID-19: 8,939
Positivity rate in Ottawa: 1.5 per cent (Dec 4-10)
Reproduction Number: 1.0 (seven day average)
Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Friday, December 11, 2020:
There have been 134,783 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 1,983 (or 1.5 per cent) from the previous day. There are 114,679 people recovered from the virus while 3,871 people have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 6,776,142 of which 66,326 have pending results.
Canada’s coronavirus case total is 442,069. The country has 13,109 deaths from the virus – one in the Yukon, 587 in British Columbia, 666 in Alberta, 75 in Saskatchewan, 451 in Manitoba, 3,871 in Ontario, 7,382 in Quebec, seven in New Brunswick, four in Newfoundland & Labrador and 65 in Nova Scotia.
The Ontario government announced the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region will move to the "orange-restrict" zone on Monday, after spending three weeks in the "yellow-protect" zone.
OTTAWA On the day, Ontario reported another 1,800 new cases of COVID-19 across the province, 91 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Ottawa Public Health reported 45 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, and one new death linked to the virus. Thirty-three of the 45 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday involved residents under the age of 40. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 8,939 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 384 deaths. The 59 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday comes after Ottawa Public Health reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and 44 new cases on Wednesday.