OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting a new COVID-19 related death in the capital. In OPH's daily COVID-19 dashboard update, the death toll from the pandemic has risen to 267 residents.
Dashboard data suggests the victim is a woman in her 90s or older. This new death was reported alongside a rise of eight new COVID-19 cases in the city, which broke an eight-day trend of double-digit daily increases in the case count.
There have been 2,975 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the first case was confirmed on March 11. The new cases in Ottawa are among 112 new cases reported across the province on Tuesday.