Ottawa’s public health unit on Monday reported the death of a second Ottawa resident related to the novel coronavirus. The death is the city’s first that has been linked to a retirement home, Dr.
Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, said during a daily teleconference call with reporters. There are 130 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city as of Sunday night, according to Ottawa Public Health, including two outbreaks at the Promenade Retirement Home on Rossignol Drive in Orléans and the Maplewood Retirement Community in the Trainyards area east of downtown, respectively.
Etches said there are five confirmed cases in the outbreak at Promenade and the total numbers in the second outbreak at Maplewood are “pending.” The chief