133 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, number of ICU patients enters double digits
Posted Mar 27, 2021 04:11:00 PM.
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting 133 new cases of COVID-19 in the city, while local hospitalization and intensive care numbers keep growing due to the virus.
As of Saturday, March 27, there are 30 people hospitalized with the novel coronavirus — 10 of whom are in intensive care. Those numbers have both grown steadily over the course of the week.
Ottawa's weekly incidence rate continues to skyrocket: now at 71.9 per 100,000 residents. The city was put into the province's red-control tier of its COVID-19 response framework after it hit 40 per 100,000.
Local residents being tested for the novel coronavirus are seeing positive results 4.6 per cent of the time.
The number of active cases in the community, according to OPH, currently sits at 954.
There continue to be 27 healthcare institutions dealing with COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa, alongside 10 schools and two childcare centres. OPH is also aware of six community outbreaks linked ti workplaces.
OPH says 110,116 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the city, as it's received 133,440 to date.
No new local COVID-19 deaths reported Saturday leaves Ottawa's pandemic death toll at 459.
There have been 16,755 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since March 2020, of which 15,342 have been resolved.
Ontario is reporting 2,453 cases of COVID-19, Saturday, after more than 61,000 tests were completed, Friday. That includes 814 new cases in Toronto, 411 in Peel, 263 in York Region, 156 in Hamilton, 139 in Durham.
