OTTAWA -- Public Health Ontario is reporting 179 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Saturday's provincial report includes 3,443 new cases of COVID-19 across Ontario and 40 new deaths.
Updated local figures from Ottawa Public Health are due at around 12:30 p.m. On Friday, OPH reported a record 210 new cases of COVID-19.
Case figures have differed between Ontario's report at 10:30 a.m. and Ottawa Public Health's report at 12:30 p.m. Ottawa Public Health says it uses a different database system than the Ontario provincial COVID-19 dashboards, which pull data at different times of day about Ottawa residents testing positive for COVID-19. TESTING Ontario health officials say 72,900 COVID-19 tests were completed across Ontario on Friday and