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OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting another 329 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 and three more residents have died. This comes after a one-day dip below 200 in the local case count on Tuesday, a day which typically sees lower than average case counts due to lower testing over the weekend. Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard now shows a total of 20,596 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ottawa and 479 residents have died since the pandemic began. There were 4,156 new cases of COVID-19 reported across Ontario on Wednesday. The province also reported 28 new deaths and 3,160 newly resolved cases. The province added 340 cases in Ottawa. Figures from OPH often differ from those provided by the province because of different data collection times.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 194 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, the lowest figure following a weekend of record-breaking case counts. OPH reported three straight days of record-setting case counts, with 242 on Friday, 325 on Saturday and 370 on Sunday. There were 348 new cases reported Monday. Case counts are frequently lower on Tuesdays because of lower testing volumes over the weekend. According to Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 20,267 total laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ottawa since the first case was confirmed on March 11, 2020. There were 196 newly resolved cases reported, bringing the number of active cases down for the first time in three weeks.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting another 198 people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, pushing the capital s pandemic total to more than 18,000 confirmed cases. Ottawa surpassed 17,000 cases on March 29. Sunday s report from Ottawa Public Health s COVID-19 dashboard shows Ottawa has seen 18,023 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the first case was confirmed on March 11, 2020. No new deaths were reported on Sunday. The city s pandemic death toll stands at 467 residents. The Ontario government did not provide a provicewide update on Sunday because of the Easter holiday. Ontario will release both Sunday and Monday s reports at 10:30 a.m. Monday. There are more people in the hospital and in the ICU, and the number of people with known active cases of COVID-19 has surpassed 1,600. The city s incidence rate of new cases per 100,000 people is nearly 115 and the estimated reproduction number remains above 1, meaning the virus is spreading.