OTTAWA -- Public Health Ontario is reporting 77 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, another jump compared to previous days. Ottawa Public Health reported 48 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and 16 on Tuesday.
Updated local figures from Ottawa Public Health are due at around 12:30 p.m. The new cases in Ottawa are among a record 2,447 new infections across Ontario.
Forty-nine new deaths were also reported provincewide. There are 646 new cases in Toronto, 502 in Peel, 263 in York Region and 173 in Windsor-Essex County, some of the province's lockdown zones.
A provincewide shutdown will move Ottawa to lockdown status at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 26. TESTING Ontario health officials said 64,592 COVID-19 tests were performed across Ontario on