OTTAWA -- Two more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19, while five new cases of the virus have been detected in Ottawa.
Ottawa Public Health reported the new cases in its daily epidemiology update on Saturday afternoon. Since the first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 11, there have been 1,935 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 242 deaths.
Thirty-seven people are currently in hospital with COVID-19. The median age of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is 56. The youngest case involved a four-month-old child. Recovering from COVID-19 Ottawa Public Health says 81 per cent of the COVID-19 cases in Ottawa are resolved.