novel coronavirus and one death related to COVID-19 on Thursday.There have now been 14,151 confirmed cases of the virus locally since the start of the pandemic, with 445 of those cases now considered active.The city’s death toll of the pandemic is now up to 435 as of Thursday.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa still stands at roughly 48 per day.
The city’s coronavirus positivity rate stood at 1.8 per cent over the past week, up slightly from 1.6 per cent in the previous period.There are 18 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa and three in the intensive care unit — these figures remain unchanged from Wednesday.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]A new coronavirus outbreak was.