All COVID-19 outbreaks cleared in Ottawa as second-vaccine numbers climb past 613K
Posted Jul 21, 2021 04:56:00 PM.
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It's zeros across the board when looking at ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa.
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) cleared an outbreak at a local shelter, which had been affecting three people, on Wednesday, July 20. That was the only remaining outbreak in the city, meaning there aren't any for the health unit to monitor as of Thursday.
OPH is, however, confirming seven new cases of COVID-19 in the community, and adding six cases of the delta variant to its overall tally. There have been 39 cases of Ottawa residents being infected with the delta variant during the pandemic. According to its dashboard, OPH says nine of those cases have come in the last 30 days.
There have been 20 new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa over the last seven days.
The health unit knows of 25 active cases of COVID-19 in the city (up one from Wednesday).
It's been a week since anyone was being treated at an Ottawa hospital for COVID-19.
No new novel coronavirus-related deaths in the city keeps the local pandemic death toll at 593.
Ottawa's weekly COVID-19 incidence rate is up slightly, to 2.3 per 100,000 residents.
The positivity rate is also up, but by very little, to 0.2 per cent from 0.1 per cent.
There have been 27,752 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa (27,134 resolved) since March of 2020.
The City of Ottawa has administered 94 per cent of the 1,229,842 COVID-19 vaccine doses it's received to date.
OPH says 763,261 residents have had at least one dose, which equals 83 per cent of the population over the age of 12. Meanwhile, 613,224 residents have had two shots, equalling 66 per cent of residents over 12 and 68 per cent of those older than 18.
