novel coronavirus on Thursday.No new deaths were reported in connection with COVID-19, leaving the city’s death toll of the pandemic at 420.Ottawa has now seen 13,153 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, with 703 of those cases currently considered active.
Ottawa schools to resume in-person learning on Feb. 1 The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa has dropped to 69 per day, down from 81 as of Wednesday.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Though levels of COVID-19 in Ottawa have been in a general decline, hospitalization rates remain elevated.There are currently 39 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa, six of whom are in the intensive care unit.