OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 63 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday, the eighth straight day with fewer than 100 new cases of COVID-19 in the capital.
Two more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 13,216 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 422 deaths.
Ottawa's key COVID-19 indicators continued to show positive signs on Friday. Ottawa's positivity rate fell to 2.4 per cent for the period of Jan.
22 to 28, while the cases per 100,000 fell to 44.0 Across Ontario, there were 1,837 new cases of COVID-19. Public Health Ontario reported 595 new cases in Toronto, 295 in Peel Region and 170 in York Region.