OTTAWA -- Forty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Wednesday, the second straight day with less than 50 new cases of the virus.
The 48 new cases follows 28 new cases on Tuesday, the lowest number of new daily cases in more than six weeks. Ottawa Public Health also reported zero new deaths linked to novel coronavirus.
Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 7,273 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 330 deaths.
Across Ontario, 987 new cases and 16 new deaths were reported on Wednesday. There are 319 new cases in Toronto, 299 in Peel Region, 85 in York Region and 62 in Durham region.