OTTAWA -- For the third straight day, Ottawa is seeing more than 100 new cases of COVID-19. Ottawa Public Health reported 126 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday.
No new deaths were announced in the daily report. Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 5,279 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 296 deaths.
Public Health Ontario reports a record 939 new cases of COVID-19 across Ontario on Friday. There are 336 new cases in Toronto and 150 in Peel Region.
In Ottawa, the 126 new cases of COVID-19 is the third highest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.