OTTAWA -- On the day Ontario set a record for highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, 31 more Ottawa residents tested positive for COVID-19.
Ottawa Public Health reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, along with one new death linked to the virus. The 31 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday is the second lowest one-day total number of cases in Ottawa in December.
Twenty-five of the 31 new cases of COVID-19 involve Ottawa residents under the age of 30. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 8,894 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 383 deaths.