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04.05.2021 / 17:10

COVID-19: Ottawa opens Infinity Centre vaccine clinic for ‘hot spot’ neighbourhoods

COVID-19.The Infinity Centre at 2901 Gibford Dr. will primarily accommodate residents of nearby neighbourhoods that have been hit hard by COVID-19.The city said in a statement last Monday that the south-end convention centre is well-positioned to vaccinate residents in the K1T and K1V postal codes, which have been designated “hot spots” by the province, as well as some of the other at-risk neighbourhoods Ottawa Public Health has identified.

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Ottawa reports 139 COVID-19 cases, workplace outbreaks down

COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa is lower to start the week, according to the latest statistics from the local public health unit.Ottawa Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard shows 34 ongoing outbreaks in the city as of Monday.Five of those affect workplaces — two warehouses, a manufacturing facility, a retail store and a restaurant.

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Ottawa surpasses 500 COVID-19 deaths

COVID-19, according to the local public health unit’s latest report Wednesday.Ottawa Public Health said five people died in connection with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll of the pandemic locally to 503 since March 2020.OPH also added 217 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, though the number of active infections in the city continued to fall to 2,363.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases also dropped to 196.6 on Wednesday, down from just under 200 the day before. Ottawa council backs Ontario paid sick leave ahead of expected announcement Dr.

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Ottawa Public Health reports 144 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

COVID-19 case counts continue to decline day by day in Ottawa, according to the last report from the local public health unit.Ottawa Public Health reported 144 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the number of active coronavirus cases in the city dropped to 2,453. Tuesdays tend to be the lowest day of the week for new coronavirus infections.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa now sits just below 200 per day.Three new deaths related to COVID-19 were recorded in the past 24 hours, however, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 498.There are now 119 Ottawa residents in hospital with COVID-19, 31 of whom are in the intensive care unit.

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Ottawa reports 5 new COVID-19 deaths, declining active case counts

COVID-19, the local public health unit reported on Monday, as active case counts start to drop off slightly in the pandemic’s third wave.Ottawa Public Health reported 190 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, following increases of 227 cases on Sunday and 254 cases on Saturday.There have now been 495 deaths related to COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic.

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Ottawa reports spike of 281 COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths

COVID-19 case count on Thursday after numerous days of declining daily figures.The local public health unit added 281 coronavirus cases on April 22 with two new deaths related to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.The daily report includes 100 more COVID-19 cases than OPH reported on Wednesday and marks a departure from the past few days of lower coronavirus figures. Ottawa’s Dr.

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Closing more businesses could prevent COVID-19 outbreaks, Ottawa’s top doc says

COVID-19 pandemic is a more effective way for the city to limit the spread of the virus than other regions in Ontario moving to shut down specific sites facing large outbreaks.The top doctors of Toronto and Peel Region both issued Section 22 orders this week to close any workplace reporting an outbreak with five or more cases of COVID-19.Dr.

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Ottawa Public Health reports 186 COVID-19 cases, 16 active workplace outbreaks

COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the city continues a general decline in new coronavirus infections but faces a growing number of workplace outbreaks.The local public health unit reported an increase of 186 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, which tends to be the lowest day of the week for new cases.The latest daily case count is well below the seven-day average of cases, however, which stood at 302.7 per day in the most recent period on OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard.

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Ottawa COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing health system to limits: Dr. Moloughney

COVID-19 in Ottawa, cautioning residents that unless the latest wave of the virus is curbed quickly, hospitalizations in the city will quickly overwhelm the local health-care system.Dr. Brent Moloughney, Ottawa’s deputy medical officer of health, told councillors and members of the media in a technical briefing Wednesday afternoon that the COVID-19 situation in the capital is at its worst point since the pandemic began locally some 13 months ago.“Both in terms of case numbers and the proportion of people testing positive, we’ve never seen anything like this before,” he said.Ottawa Public Health reported 329 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths related to the virus on Wednesday.

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COVID-19 vaccine appointment scams popping up in Ottawa, officials warn

COVID-19 vaccine appointments.The warning comes after reports that “unauthorized callers” have been asking residents for personal information and pretending to arrange COVID-19 vaccine appointments or tests.Ottawa Public Health will never ask a resident for payment or for their social insurance number when making an appointment, the city says, and bookings can not be traded or sold from person to person.

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Ottawa adds 156 COVID-19 cases as stay-home order goes into effect

COVID-19 cases as a provincewide stay-home order designed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus went into effect on Thursday.Ottawa Public Health reported 156 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, raising the number of active cases of the virus in the city to 1,948.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is at 207.9 per day as of Thursday, with the incidence rate of new infections rising to 138 cases per 100,000 people.No new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported in the city on Thursday.The number of people in hospital with the virus also remained steady at 69, with 20 COVID-19 patients still in the intensive care unit.

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Ottawa’s top doc says COVID-19 in schools ‘manageable’, but leaves door open for online shift

COVID-19 transmission in schools does not currently warrant a shift to online-only learning.Dr. Vera Etches sent a letter to the directors of Ottawa’s four school boards on Tuesday outlining her position on keeping schools open amid a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Multiple public health units in the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario have made decisions to close some schools to in-person learning in the past 24 hours due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the province’s third wave of the pandemic.

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Ottawa’s top doctor hopes upcoming COVID-19 shutdown could be the last one

COVID-19 vaccines increasingly protect the city’s most vulnerable residents.Premier Doug Ford and senior ministers announced Thursday afternoon that the entire province will enter a 28-day “emergency brake” shutdown on Saturday at 12:01 a.m.New limitations will prohibit both indoor and patio dining at restaurants, force the closure of gyms and put tighter caps on the number of people allowed inside grocery stores and other shops.Ford also asked residents to limit their trips outside the home to essential purposes only.The move comes a day after Ottawa’s medical officer of health, Dr.

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COVID-19 kills 7 in ongoing outbreak at The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus

COVID-19 outbreak at The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus.Ottawa Public Health says 27 patients have been infected, as have 15 staff.The outbreak began Feb. 19 and is the longest ongoing outbreak among health-care facilities in the region.

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Coronavirus: Walk-in vaccine hopefuls leading to crowds outside Ottawa clinics

COVID-19 vaccination appointments booked to stop showing up at coronavirus vaccine clinics.A spokesperson with the city tells Global News that “many people” are coming to clinics without a booking, leading to crowds forming outside the sites.While the city opened up bookings to anyone in the city aged 90 and older earlier this week, all available bookings have already been taken, the city announced Friday.Mayor Jim Watson said Thursday that 1,958 residents in the 90-plus cohort had booked vaccine appointments on the first day lines were open.As of last evening, @OttawaHealth is reporting 1958 residents who are 90 or older have booked an appointment for their COVID-19 vaccine.

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Here’s how Ottawa health workers will get their COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19 vaccines when each sector comes up in the queue.The local public health unit said Monday that COVID-19 vaccine supplies in Ottawa will allow health-care workers deemed “very high priority” under the province’s coronavirus vaccine sequencing plans to start getting their jabs in the next few days.To make sure OPH’s vaccination system is ready to accommodate the “tens of thousands” of workers in Ottawa that fall into this high-priority category, the health unit will sign up workers via an online portal set to launch on Wednesday.Workers in the following settings and roles can pre-register through the portal:[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]When the province clears these workers vaccination,

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Coronavirus: Ottawa adds 62 COVID-19 cases as hospitals near capacity

COVID-19 on Thursday as the city’s health-care system begins to strain once more amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.There have now been 14,532 cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic nearly a year ago, with 457 of those cases currently considered active, according to OPH’s dashboard.Two additional people have also died in connection with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the city’s coronavirus death toll to 439.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa adds 45 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations tick back up

coronavirus cases on Friday as well as a jump in the number of people in hospital with COVID-19.There have now been 8,653 cases of the novel coronavirus in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic.One additional person with COVID-19 has died in the last 24 hours, raising Ottawa’s death toll of the pandemic to 379. Commission flags poor oversight of Ontario nursing homes as COVID-19 deaths jump The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ottawa has slowly crept up each day this week, standing at 383 on Friday compared with 344 on Monday.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The number of people in hospital due to the virus jumped up as well on Friday.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa reports 34 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death

COVID-19 in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, according to Ottawa Public Health (OPH).There have now been 8,521 cases of the novel coronavirus locally since the start of the pandemic.OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard lists 351 of those cases as active, up slightly from 344 the day before.

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People to thank for Ottawa’s success with curbing COVID-19: health officer

COVID-19 cases continues to rise across Canada, the infection rate in Ottawa has been going in the other direction for weeks, putting the city on the right track to flatten the curve of the pandemic once again.The city’s chief medical officer, Dr. Vera Etches, said much of the credit goes to the people who live here, who have been wearing masks — in some cases, such as on public transit, forced to do so earlier than others across Canada — and staying at home.There was a time in early October when Ottawa, despite its initial success flattening the curve in the spring, experienced a spike in COVID-19 cases that saw the city have double the number of cases seen in Toronto and Peel Region at that time.

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Coronavirus: Active COVID-19 cases in Ottawa continue to drop

COVID-19 in Ottawa continues to decline as the local public health unit reports 23 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday.There have now been 8,278 cases of the virus locally since the start of the pandemic, with 259 of those considered active on Ottawa Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard. That’s down from 287 the day before.No new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Thursday.The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa is up slightly to 23 with three people in the intensive care unit.Three new coronavirus outbreaks were added to OPH’s dashboard on Thursday, one of which is linked to a social event in the city.

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Celebrate Christmas, holidays in Ottawa with immediate household only, Dr. Etches advises

novel coronavirus pandemic.Though Ottawa’s rates of coronavirus infection have entered a “slow decline” in recent weeks, it’s too soon to relax public health directives to encourage in-person gatherings with friends and extended family, Dr. Vera Etches said in an update to city council on Wednesday morning.“This holiday season in 2020 will be unlike any other in our lives,” she said.Her advice for Christmas mirrors previous directives surrounding Halloween and Thanksgiving this year.

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Ottawa adds 40 new COVID-19 cases, no new coronavirus outbreaks

coronavirus cases in Ottawa as of Monday as the number of active cases in the city continues to drop.Ottawa Public Health is reporting 347 active cases of COVID-19 in the city on Monday. That’s down from 515 active cases this time last week.There have now been 8,212 cases of the novel coronavirus in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, with 7,498 of those marked resolved.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa adds 77 COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations drop

coronavirus cases on Friday as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 drops.The local public health unit added 77 new cases to Ottawa’s COVID-19 case count on Friday, more than twice the 37 cases from the day before.Though Friday’s increase is the largest of the week, Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches said Tuesday that the pattern of local case reporting tends to rise later in the week as testing volumes generally increase by mid-week.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa COVID-19 infections surpass 8,000 as active cases dip below 400

coronavirus case count passed the 8,000 mark on Thursday as the city saw its number of active cases dip below 400 for the first time since September.Ottawa Public Health reported 37 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday and no new deaths related to COVID-19.There have now been 8,027 cases of the virus in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, with 396 cases considered active. With new capacity ready, Ottawa task force urging residents to get tested for coronavirus One new coronavirus outbreak has been declared in the past 24 hours locally at an unspecified community organization.

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Ottawa adds 22 COVID-19 cases, 1 new coronavirus outbreak

novel coronavirus on Wednesday.There have now been 7,990 cases of the virus in Ottawa, with 411 of those cases now considered active, according to OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard. Ontario expecting to receive total of 2.4 million doses of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines by March Two additional people in Ottawa have died in relation to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 363.The rate of people testing positive for the virus locally has dropped to 2.2 per cent for the period spanning Nov.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa records 11 new COVID-19 cases in lowest increase since Sept. 1

COVID-19 cases in more than two months on Tuesday, according to the local public health unit.Ottawa Public Health reported an increase of 11 cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday.This marks the lowest daily increase since OPH reported eight new COVID-19 cases on Sept. 1 — two weeks before local health officials declared the city had entered the second wave of the pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa reports 51 new COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations drop

coronavirus in the nation’s capital on Monday as the number of people in hospital locally with COVID-19 trends downward.Monday’s report comes after increases of 62 cases on Sunday and 78 cases on Saturday.There have now been 7,957 cases of the virus in Ottawa, with 515 cases considered active, according to OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard Ontario reports 1,487 new coronavirus cases, 10 more deaths One additional person has died in connection with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 359.Among the positive trends in Ottawa’s efforts to flatten the second wave of the pandemic is a declining number of people in hospital.OPH’s dashboard shows there are 46 people in hospital with COVID-19 locally, down from

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Coronavirus: Ottawa down to 41 new COVID-19 cases following single-day spike

coronavirus infection on Friday, though the number of new deaths and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in the city remains high.Ottawa Public Health reported 41 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, down from a spike of 91 new cases on Thursday.The local public health unit also reported six new deaths related to the virus, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 356.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa reports spike of 91 new COVID-19 cases

coronavirus case count spiked on Thursday as the local public health unit plans for the rollout of an eventual COVID-19 vaccine.Ottawa Public Health reported 91 new cases of the novel coronavirus, following two straight days of local increases under 30.One additional person has died in Ottawa in relation to COVID-19, bringing the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 350.There are now 495 active cases of the virus in Ottawa, according to OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard.There have been 7,725 cases of the coronavirus locally since the start of the pandemic.Ontario, meanwhile, set another record for new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with an increase of 1,575 cases.

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Ottawa adds 21 new COVID-19 cases as Ontario sets another daily increase record

COVID-19 cases in almost two months on Tuesday, even as the rest of the province continues to set daily records for new infections.Ottawa Public Health reported 21 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, a substantial drop from daily case counts in the 70s over the past three days.Tuesday’s daily report from OPH, which includes 24 hours of data pulled at 2 p.m. on Nov.

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Ottawa Public Health reports 77 coronavirus cases, 5 deaths tied to COVID-19

novel coronavirus cases in Ottawa has crept up in recent days, even as the rest of the province sets new records for daily COVID-19 spikes.Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported 77 new cases of the virus on Monday, following increases of 71 cases on Sunday and 78 cases on Saturday. The latest increases mark an uptick from last week’s day-to-day reports.Ontario, meanwhile, set new daily records for COVID-19 increases on Saturday and Sunday, only to have those figures surpassed with a report of 1,242 new cases on Monday.Ottawa moved into the orange zone of the province’s new COVID-19 reopening framework on Saturday, which allows for indoor dining and the reopening of gyms.

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Ottawa reports 51 new coronavirus cases, 4 deaths linked to COVID-19

coronavirus cases on Thursday.Four additional people in Ottawa have also died in connection with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 334.Ottawa has now seen 7,324 cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic.

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Ottawa Hospital reports coronavirus outbreak amid 93 new COVID-19 cases in the capital

coronavirus cases and one new death related to COVID-19 on Thursday.The local public health unit’s COVID-19 dashboard shows there are 777 active cases of the virus in Ottawa.The city has now seen 5,800 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. Ottawa enters ‘red’ on COVID-19 warning system as hospitalizations, outbreaks spike There are currently 46 people in hospital with COVID-19 and nine in the intensive care unit, a slight dip from Wednesday.The Ottawa Hospital is reporting a new coronavirus outbreak in the 5N ward of its General campus, where one patient has so far tested positive for the virus.An active outbreak at St.

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Ottawa enters ‘red’ on COVID-19 warning system as hospitalizations, outbreaks spike

COVID-19 warning system amid surging levels of outbreaks and hospitalizations related to the novel coronavirus in the city.Ottawa Public Health’s COVID-19 dashboard shows the city has dropped to “red” after spending most of the pandemic in the “orange” warning zone.The shift comes amid surging positivity rates of COVID-19 in Ottawa and signs the city’s health-care system is struggling to cope. Ottawa wedding results in 22 COVID-19 cases, hundreds self-isolating, OPH says Per capita, Ottawa has posted the highest positivity rate for the novel coronavirus of any region in Ontario over the past two weeks, Dr.

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Ottawa sets record with 183 new COVID-19 cases as labs chip away at testing backlog

COVID-19 cases on Thursday amid a record jump in new infections of the novel coronavirus.Ottawa Public Health reported 183 new cases of the virus on Thursday, surpassing last week’s daily record of 142 new cases recorded on Oct. 2.There have now been 5,153 cases of the virus in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, with OPH marking 879 of those cases as active.

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Ottawa wedding results in 22 COVID-19 cases, hundreds self-isolating: OPH

COVID-19 symptoms kicked off a chain reaction of transmission that saw 22 people infected and more than 200 people forced to self-isolate in just 15 days, according to the local public health unit.Ottawa Public Health (OPH) shared a diagram on Twitter on Thursday morning to illustrate how quickly the novel coronavirus can spread in large group settings when precautions aren’t taken.At a September indoor wedding with roughly 50 people in attendance, one person attended the event despite having mild symptoms of COVID-19, OPH said.Attendees were not physically distancing or wearing masks at the event, so when those symptoms were later confirmed to be COVID-19, 49 other high-risk contacts were created.In total, 22 people tested positive for the

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Ottawa Public Health reports 117 new coronavirus cases

COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the second-highest single-day spike of the novel coronavirus pandemic for the nation’s capital.Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reports there have now been 4,970 cases of the virus in the city since the start of the pandemic.There are 810 active COVID-19 cases in Ottawa, according to OPH’s dashboard, five more than the day before.

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Ottawa reports 63 new COVID-19 cases as online test booking begins

coronavirus on Tuesday as testing centres across the city shift to an online booking system.The local public health unit also reported one new death related to COVID-19, raising the city’s death toll in the pandemic to 295.There have now been 4,853 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic in Ottawa, 805 of which are currently considered active. That’s down from 847 active cases on Monday.

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Ottawa’s health system is in ‘crisis,’ Dr. Etches says amid 142 new coronavirus cases

coronavirus, shattering the previous record of 105 new infections set just a few days prior.The rate at which Ottawa residents are testing positive for the virus is unsustainable, Dr. Vera Etches said in a rare morning press conference to address the COVID-19 situation in Ottawa.She did not announce any new restrictions on residents’ behaviour aimed at stemming the spread of the virus.Instead, she urged everyone in the city to limit their close contacts to their household and one or two essential supports, lest the city’s health-care infrastructure collapse.“I am sounding the alarm.

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Ottawa adds 66 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths to start October

coronavirus case count continues to rise amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation’s capital.Ottawa Public Health reported 66 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 4,388 locally.There are now 677 active cases of the virus in Ottawa, a slight dip from Wednesday.

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Coronavirus: Latest developments in Ottawa on Sept. 30

coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a dip compared to the record-setting increase the day before.Ontario’s daily COVID-19 report also shows two additional deaths related to the virus in Ottawa.Ontario added 625 total coronavirus cases on Wednesday as new modelling showed the province could see 1,000 cases per day in the first half of October.Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said nearly 35,800 tests have been processed since Tuesday, but there’s currently a backlog of 67,126 tests still awaiting results.Tuesday saw Ottawa add 105 new coronavirus cases, surpassing the record for the highest daily increase set just a week previous.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said

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Ottawa records 41 new COVID-19 cases in lowest increase of the week

coronavirus on Friday, a relative dip to end what’s been a week of record highs for new daily infections.There were no new deaths related to COVID-19 in Ottawa reported Friday, according to the local public health unit.The latest daily increase follows increases of 93 cases on Tuesday and 82 cases on Thursday, Ottawa’s two highest single-day totals since the start of the pandemic.

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‘We are close to red,’ Dr. Vera Etches says as Ottawa adds 65 new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 database is showing an additional 65 coronavirus cases in Ottawa on Wednesday as the city’s top doctor warns the city may need to raise its virus warning level during the second wave of the pandemic.Dr.

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Ottawa’s top doctor issues isolation order for positive COVID-19 cases, close contacts

a new class order from Ottawa’s medical officer of health, anyone in the city who tests positive for COVID-19, is a close contact of a confirmed case or reasonably suspects they might have contracted the coronavirus must now self-isolate for 14 days or until they test negative, lest they face a $5,000 fine.Dr.

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Ottawa sees 90 new COVID-19 cases, setting new single-day record

COVID-19 is setting new records for single-day increases in the number of local coronavirus cases.Ottawa recorded 90 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, according to Ontario’s dashboard tracking the virus across the province.The provincial system also shows three new deaths linked to the virus in Ottawa.

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Ottawa getting east-end COVID-19 testing site in October: Mayor Watson

coronavirus testing centre in Orléans sometime next month, Mayor Jim Watson announced Monday.Watson said on Twitter that l’Hôpital Montfort, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) and other community partners will open a COVID-19 testing site at the Ray Friel Community Centre in Orléans.Pleased to share that in conjunction with l’Hôpital Montfort, OPH and our other health partners, we are working to mobilize a COVID-19 Care Clinic in Orléans at the Ray Friel Community Centre on 10th Line Rd.— Jim Watson (@JimWatsonOttawa) September 21, 2020He said that the site is expected to open in October and that details would follow on specific service hours.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Separate entrances and exits to

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Ottawa reports 60 COVID-19 cases as elementary school closes due to outbreak

COVID-19 cases in Ottawa continues to surge as the city saw its first elementary school close due to an outbreak of the novel coronavirus.Ottawa reported 60 new cases of the virus on Monday, according to Ontario’s COVID-19 database.The provincial system also shows two new deaths related to COVID-19 in Ottawa.Ottawa Public Health (OPH) will release its more fulsome daily report on the virus later this afternoon.Meanwhile, an elementary school in the Ottawa Catholic District School Board is closed for two weeks after two students and two staff tested positive for the virus.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]OPH officially declared a coronavirus outbreak at Monsignor Paul Baxter in Barrhaven as of Sept.

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