One new COVID-19 death, 46 cases Ottawa-wide and a high school outbreak
Posted Feb 18, 2021 05:50:00 PM.
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says the city has lost another resident due to COVID-19, while 46 more have tested positive for the virus.
Since March of 2020, there have now been 435 COVID-19-related deaths in Ottawa, and 14,151 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus. However, OPH adds, 13,271 local cases of COVID-19 have been resolved.
Two students at St. Patrick's High School have contracted the virus, putting the school on OPH's outbreak list. Charles H. Hulse Public School is the only other school in the city dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak (three student cases).
Other outbreaks in the city, as of Thursday, February 18, include 18 healthcare institutions, three childcare centres and six workplaces.
OPH says it knows of 445 active cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.
There are 18 people in local hospitals with the virus — three of whom are in intensive care (ICU). Local hospitals are at 71 per cent ICU capacity, 19 per cent ICU ventilator bed capacity and 95 per cent acute care bed capacity.
Just 1.8 per cent of residents being tested for COVID-19 are seeing positive results over the last week.
The City of Ottawa has dished out 40,395 novel coronavirus vaccine doses, after receiving 39,100. The city's last shipment came in on February 10. Health officials have been able to get more doses from delivered vials than was originally thought possible.
Ontario is reporting 1,038 new cases of COVID-19, Thursday, including eight in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, and none in either the Leeds, Grenville & Lanark district or Renfrew County.
