OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting eight new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, along with one new death linked to the virus.
The new cases were announced in the daily epidemiology update from Ottawa Public Health on Thursday afternoon. Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on March 11, there have been 1,985 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 248 deaths.
Thirty-three people are currently being treated in hospital for COVID-19 related illnesses. The median age of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is 56.
The youngest case involved a four-month-old, while the oldest case involved a 105-year-old resident. Recovering from COVID-19 The daily epidemiology update shows 83 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Ottawa