OTTAWA -- The City of Ottawa continues to see a spike in COVID-19 cases, with double-digit increases for a fifth straight day.
Thirty-three new cases of COVID-19 were announced on Wednesday, along with zero new deaths. Data provided by Ottawa Public Health shows 17 of the 33 new cases of COVID-19 are people under the age of 40.
The 33 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday comes one day after 43 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Ottawa. Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 2,320 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 263 deaths.
There are currently eight people in hospital with COVID-19, including three in the intensive care unit. Active cases of COVID-19 Ottawa Public Health is