OTTAWA -- As students and teachers prepare for the return to school for in-class learning on Monday, the city of Ottawa is seeing a decline in daily COVID-19 cases and the COVID-19 rate in the community.
Ottawa Public Health is reporting 46 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Sunday, along with no new deaths linked to the virus.
Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 13,336 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 422 deaths.
The 46 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday is the second lowest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases in Ottawa in 2021. Ottawa's key COVID-19 indicators have also fallen out of the "Red" zone in Ontario's COVID-19 restriction system.