OTTAWA -- Six more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19 Ottawa Public Health announced the new deaths linked to COVID-19 in its daily epidemiology report on Friday afternoon, along with 41 new cases of novel coronavirus.
Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 7,766 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 356 deaths.
Twenty-two Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19 related illnesses in November. The 41 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday comes one day after Ottawa saw the highest one-day increase in new cases in November.
There were 91 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Despite the one-day spike, Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches told reporters she was "encouraged" by the