OTTAWA -- Three more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19, while six new cases of novel coronavirus have been detected in the community.
Ottawa Public Health announced the new cases of COVID-19 in its daily epidemiology update on Saturday afternoon. Since the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 1,998 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 251 deaths.
Thirty-one residents remain in hospital with COVID-19. The median age of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is 56 years-old, with the youngest case involving a four-month-old child.
Twenty-three per cent of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa involve residents over the age of 80. There have been 29 cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa involving