Twelve more people in Ottawa have died in relation to the novel coronavirus, Ottawa Public Health said Tuesday. Ottawa’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 71 as of 4 p.m.
on Monday, with the preceding 24 hours marking the highest number of deaths in a single day of the pandemic locally. The local public health unit also identified 67 new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, bringing Ottawa’s total up to 1,221.
Of that total, 529 cases, or roughly 43 per cent, have been marked as resolved. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Ottawa’s hospitalization rate for the virus is steady at 10 per cent.