COVID-19 cases in the city on Thursday.There have now been 13,485 lab-confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus locally since the start of the pandemic, with 457 of those cases considered active.No new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Thursday, leaving the city’s death toll of the pandemic at 422.The seven-day average for new COVID-19 cases dropped to 48 per day on Thursday, down from 53 the day before.Ottawa’s coronavirus percent positivity rose to 1.9 per cent in the past week, however, up slightly from 1.8 per cent in the previous period.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The number of people with COVID-19 in hospital locally remained steady at 29 as of Thursday, with six people in the.