OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting its lowest number of new COVID-19 cases in a week. In its COVID-19 dashboard update on Tuesday, OPH reported 13 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and one more person has died.
The last time numbers were below 20 was on Dec. 8, when 18 new cases were reported. This comes amid changes to data extraction methods at the provincial level that gave Ottawa a negative case count on Tuesday.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province made the change Tuesday, which led to an increase in the number of cases reported across Ontario. @PublicHealthON has changed their data extraction process & updated their data extraction time to 1 p.m. (from 10:30 a.m.), resulting in a