OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 46 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday, the 28th straight day with fewer than 100 cases of COVID-19 in the capital.
One new death linked to novel coronavirus was also reported. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 14,151 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 435 deaths.
Ottawa Public Health's daily COVID-19 dashboard shows Ottawa's positivity rate increased to 1.8 per cent for the period of Feb.
10 to 16, while the cases per 100,000 jumped to 32.1 The 46 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa follows 67 new cases on Wednesday and 31 new cases on Tuesday.