COVID-19 on the city’s Black and racialized communities with a new data release showing just how jarring the discrepancies in coronavirus infections are between white and non-white residents.The latest release from Ottawa Public Health analyzes COVID-19 data collected across the city from February to August, stripping away infections that took place in long-term care homes, congregate living settings and people who have died.There were 1,444 people who met OPH’s criteria and responded to the sociodemographic survey, roughly half of the total number of residents who had tested positive by that time.The report shows that Black people make up 37 per cent of all coronavirus cases in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, despite making up just.