OTTAWA -- Five more residents of Ottawa have died due to COVID-19. Ottawa Public Health announced the new deaths in its daily epidemiology update on Sunday afternoon.
One day after reporting the fewest cases of COVID-19 since March 15, the daily update shows nine new laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.
Since the first case of COVID-19 was announced on March 11, there has been 1,896 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 233 deaths.
There are 38 Ottawa residents with COVID-19 being treated in hospital. The median age of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is 56 years-old.