coronavirus infections will overwhelm the city’s health-care system and force the shutdown of schools and businesses in the fall if residents don’t take serious action now to stem the rising tide of COVID-19, the city’s top doctor said Thursday.Dr.
Vera Etches, Ottawa medical officer of health, told members of the media Thursday afternoon that every age group under 80 in the city has seen at least a fivefold increase in the rate of coronavirus infections since the first week of July.The latest Ottawa Public Health (OPH) report on Thursday showed 15 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the city’s number of lab-confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic to just under 2,500.While Ottawa entered the province’s Stage 3 of reopening just.