OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting the largest one day jump in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.
Fifty new cases of novel coronavirus were reported on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 194. Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr.
Brent Moloughney says the jump of 50 new cases on Wednesday is “in large part due to the processing of the backlog of tests, with the majority of the specimens taken on or before March 19.” “They reflect cases that occurred some weeks ago.” Three people have died in Ottawa from COVID-19.
Twenty-five people who tested positive are being treated in an Ottawa hospital, with seven people in the Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday.