OTTAWA -- Seven more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ottawa, while one more death has been linked to novel coronavirus.
Ottawa Public Health announced the new cases in its daily epidemiology update on Tuesday afternoon. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there has been 1,908 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 235 deaths.
Thirty-seven Ottawa residents are currently being treated in hospital for COVID-19 related illnesses. Recovering from COVID-19 Ottawa Public Health says 79 per cent of cases of COVID-19 have now been resolved.
A total of 1,512 of the 1,908 people who tested positive for novel coronavirus have recovered. According to the epidemiology update, there’s 161 active,