OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says another 217 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and five more people have died, pushing the city s death toll from the pandemic to more than 500 residents. Across Ontario, officials reported 3,480 new cases of COVID-19, along with 4,517 newly resolved cases. Twenty-four more people in Ontario have died of COVID-19. Ontario health officials reported 180 new cases in Ottawa. Figures from OPH often differ from those provided by the province because the two health units pull data for their daily reports at different times of day. However, the province notes that counts for some health units in the central west region may be higher in today’s report in part due to a catch-up in processing laboratory data into CCM.
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OTTAWA Ottawa police set up and then take down 24/7 checkpoints at interprovincial crossings, a Riverside South resident is told to remove his front yard garden and we meet nurses on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the five most viewed stories on our website this week. Less than 48 hours after officers began setting up checkpoints at interprovincial crossings between Ottawa and Gatineau, Ottawa police stopped monitoring the crossings 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Ontario government issued directives to limit non-essential travel into Ontario, requiring police to set up checkpoints starting at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
OTTAWA Odelia Scher is no stranger to the intensive care unit at the Queensway Carleton Hospital. Walking into the COVID unit at the hospital in Ottawa s west end for the first time, she was taken aback. I hadn’t been to the COVID unit or the COVID ICU at all and when I walked in and saw the environment, it was a lot to take in, Scher said. Scher spent one year in the intensive care unit at the Queensway Carleton Hospital before moving to a different specialization. Last week, she was called back to critical care. My stomach just kind of dropped a little bit, Scher said.
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Since January, seven of Dr. Jane Liddle’s young patients have been admitted to CHEO in the throes of severe mental health crises that left them suicidal and suffering from major depression as well as extreme anxiety.
The teens were hospitalized for their own, and others’, safety and stabilized. In a matter of weeks, they were back home, more stable, but still getting ongoing treatment for serious mental disorders.
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