OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 74 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Saturday, while Ottawa s rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people dropped to its lowest level in 2021. The 74 cases of COVID-19 on Saturday follows 63 new cases on Friday. The slight increase in new cases comes ahead of elementary and secondary school students in Ottawa returning to class for in-person learning on Monday. No new deaths linked to COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Saturday. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 13,290 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 422 deaths. The city of Ottawa continues to see positive trends in the key COVID-19 monitoring indicators. The COVID-19 rate per 100,000 people fell to 42.5 cases on Saturday, down from 44 cases per 100,000 on Friday.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 63 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, the eighth straight day with fewer than 100 new cases of COVID-19 in the capital. Two more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 13,216 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 422 deaths. Ottawa s key COVID-19 indicators continued to show positive signs on Friday. Ottawa s positivity rate fell to 2.4 per cent for the period of Jan. 22 to 28, while the cases per 100,000 fell to 44.0 Across Ontario, there were 1,837 new cases of COVID-19. Public Health Ontario reported 595 new cases in Toronto, 295 in Peel Region and 170 in York Region.
OTTAWA One day after seeing its lowest daily case count in six weeks, Ottawa is seeing an uptick in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases in the city. However, trends including the number of active cases and the weekly average of cases per capita continue to improve. The testing positivity rate has also dropped below three per cent. Ottawa Public Health said 72 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19. No new deaths were reported in Ottawa on Wednesday, leaving the city s pandemic death toll at 420 residents.
1,670 new cases were reported across Ontario on Wednesday, the province s lowest daily case count in two months. The province also reported 49 new deaths and 2,725 new resolved cases provincewide.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in the city since mid-December. OPH says 23 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the city s pandemic total to 13,000 cases. One new death was also reported in Ottawa on Tuesday. There have been 420 COVID-19 related deaths in Ottawa since the pandemic began. Public Health Ontario also reported 63 new COVID-19 related deaths in the province and 2,261 new resolved cases. The figures from Ottawa Public Health often differ from Public Health Ontario due to different data collection times. The two health units were only apart by two cases in terms of their pandemic totals on Monday. Ottawa Public Health s total number of cases on Monday was 12,977, versus 12,979 reported by the province. That gap has now grown to 11 cases, with Ontario s total at 13,011 and Ottawa s at 13,000.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest daily COVID-19 case count in nearly a month. The public health unit said 48 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, a figure not seen since Dec. 29, 2020. No new deaths were reported for a second day in a row, leaving the city s pandemic death toll at 419 residents. Public Health Ontario reported 1,958 new cases of COVID-19 reported across the province. Ontario also reported 43 new deaths and 2,448 new resolved cases on Monday. The province added 51 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Figures from the province and from OPH often differ due to different data collection times, but each respective authority s total cases are similar, with Ontario reporting 12,979 cases versus Ottawa Public Health s 12,977.