OTTAWA -- Two more residents of Ottawa have died due to COVID-19, while eight new cases of the virus have been detected. Ottawa Public Health announced the new cases in its daily epidemiology update on Thursday afternoon.
Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Ottawa on March 11, there has been 1,930 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 240 deaths.
Thirty-seven residents are currently in hospital for treatment of COVID-19. The median age of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is 56-years-old.
The youngest case involved a four-month-old. Recovering from COVID-19 Ottawa Public Health says 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases are now resolved.