OTTAWA -- Public Health Ontario is reporting 14 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, the lowest figure so far this year. Figures are frequently lower on Tuesdays due to lower testing data over the weekends, but local figures have been trending lower overall in the past week compared to early January.
Ottawa Public Health reported 22 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday and 46 new cases on Sunday. An update from Ottawa Public Health on the local picture is due at around 12:30 p.m.
Across Ontario, public health officials reported 745 new cases provincewide, but warned that the data is skewed by a data migration at Toronto Public Health. "On February 1, Toronto Public Health (TPH) migrated all COVID-19 data to CCM from their local CORES system.