OTTAWA -- Nine more residents of Ottawa have died due to COVID-19. Ottawa Public Health announced the new deaths linked to the virus in its daily epidemiology update on Friday afternoon.
There has been 220 deaths linked to the virus in Ottawa. Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 were also reported in Ottawa on Friday.
Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there has been 1,885 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Ottawa Public Health says 44 residents are currently being treated in hospital for COVID-19.
The median age of the COVID-19 cases is 56 years-old. The oldest case involved a 105-year-old resident. A total of 510 health care workers and first responders have tested positive for COVID-19. Recovering from