OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 61 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died. The health unit s COVID-19 dashboard now shows 15,757 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Ottawa since the first case was confirmed on March 11, 2020. The death toll from the pandemic now stands at 450 citizens of Ottawa. No new variants of concern were confirmed in Ottawa on Wednesday, but eight more cases have tested positive for mutations. To date, Ottawa has seen 14 confirmed cases of the B.1.17 variant, two confirmed cases of the B.1.351 variant and 188 cases that have screened positive for a mutation whose lineage has not been confirmed.
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.