Ottawa’s death toll in connection with the novel coronavirus continues to climb as public health officials start to outline the criteria needed to lift the city’s pandemic restrictions.
Ottawa Public Health reported seven new deaths connected to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, between Tuesday and Wednesday.
The latest figures rival Ottawa’s deadliest day of the pandemic to date and bring the city’s death toll to 32. The public health unit also identified 44 new lab-confirmed cases of the virus in Ottawa, pushing the local total to 943.
Ottawa’s climbing number of infections comes as the Ontario government declared earlier this week that the province’s COVID-19 cases had peaked thanks to effective efforts in flattening the