OTTAWA -- Eight more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19. Ottawa Public Health announced the new deaths in its daily epidemiology update on Wednesday.
Twenty-five new cases of COVID-19 were also confirmed in Ottawa. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there has been 1,849 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 210 deaths.
There are currently 44 Ottawa residents with COVID-19 in hospital for treatment. Recoveries Ottawa Public Health says 77 per cent of the cases have been resolved.
A total of 1,426 people have recovered after testing positive for COVID-19. Exposure to COVID-19 More than half of the COVID-19 cases are linked to long-term care homes, retirement homes, hospitals, shelters