COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s top doctor said Tuesday as the province moved to enact new stay-at-home orders to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.Dr.
Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, told reporters that the rapid growth of coronavirus levels and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 are threatening to overwhelm the city’s health-care system — the same grave warning she gave in October when the city was seeing its last spike in COVID-19 cases.Ottawa Public Health reported 63 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday — fewer than half of Monday’s total — but the trends on other figures are more troubling.