Fast Facts: Ottawa Public Health reported seven additional deaths linked to COVID-19 on Sunday. An Ottawa doctor says family physicians are being left out of Ontario s COVID-19 vaccine rollout. A local pediatrician is calling the extended closures of schools a mental health, physical health, and academic crisis. Ottawa families spent Sunday morning booking vaccine appointments for their children as the province expanded eligibility to anyone 12 and older.
COVID-19 by the numbers in Ottawa (Ottawa Public Health data):
New COVID-19 cases: 97 cases on Sunday
Total COVID-19 cases: 26,600
COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (previous seven days): 52.9
Positivity rate in Ottawa: 5.5 per cent (May 14 to May 20)
Many families in Ottawa were up early Sunday morning, hoping to get a vaccine appointment for their children as the province opened eligibility to ages 12 to 17.
OTTAWA The City of Ottawa says new COVID-19 vaccine appointments will become available Sunday morning, the same time the province opens eligibility to anyone 12 and older. In a release Saturday afternoon, the city said the additional appointments would be available starting at 8 a.m. Sunday; however, the city did not specify how many appointments would be available, nor did it say when the vaccinations would take place. When eligibility expanded to anyone 18 and older on Tuesday, all available appointments in Ottawa were booked up in under three hours. Most appointments were for mid-to-late June. The city was not expected to announce further appointments until the week of May 31.