COVID-19 indicators are dropping in Ottawa as the city prepares to mark one year of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Ottawa Public Health reported 52 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases locally to 15,259.Some key viral indicators in Ottawa that were approaching the threshold for the red-control zone on Ontario’s reopening framework appear to be reversing course.The coronavirus incidence rate in Ottawa is now down to 35.6 cases per 100,000 people from 36.8 cases on Tuesday, moving the city further from the 40 infections per 100,000 that warrants a shift into the red.The city’s coronavirus positivity rate is also down slightly to 2.1 per cent in the past week.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for.