COVID-19 on Thursday as the city’s health-care system begins to strain once more amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.There have now been 14,532 cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic nearly a year ago, with 457 of those cases currently considered active, according to OPH’s dashboard.Two additional people have also died in connection with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the city’s coronavirus death toll to 439.
Rapid tests in Ottawa schools found no COVID-19 cases last weekend, OPH says There are currently 21 people in hospital locally with COVID-19, eight of whom are in the intensive care unit.The number of people in hospitals with the virus in Ottawa had been declining in the first two weeks of February,.
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