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OTTAWA Ottawa s top doctor says the city is ready for schools to reopen. Speaking to reporters Tuesday following a technical briefing on the city s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches said she believes children should be in school sooner rather than later. My recommendation to reopen schools comes from seeing the decline in the percent of people testing positive, seeing the reproductive number coming down, and seeing the rate of COVID-19 in our community going down, Dr. Etches said. In the past two weeks, Ottawa has seen transmission rates decline after a post-Christmas spike in cases at the start of the new year. On Tuesday, Ottawa Public Health reported 23 new cases of COVID-19, it s lowest figure since mid-December. The testing positivity rate has gone from 4.7 per cent to 3.0 per cent, and weekly averages have been nearly cut in half.