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COVID-19 hospitalizations surging in Ottawa

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COVID-19 in Ottawa continues to climb as the provincial hospital association warns the capacity of Ontario’s health-care system will be increasingly strained as coronavirus levels rise.There are now 40 people in hospital with COVID-19 locally, according to the latest update from Ottawa Public Health, three more than the day before.

Roughly a third of those people are in the intensive care unit.OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard shows 95 per cent of acute care beds are currently occupied across the city’s health-care system.

ICU beds are currently 78 per cent occupied.Dr. Doug Manuel, an epidemiologist with The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, tweeted Tuesday showing projections that COVID-19 hospitalizations in the city could hit an “all-time.

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