Ottawa COVID-19 hospitalizations drop, outbreak cleared at daycare

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting three people in local hospitals with COVID-19, and says an outbreak at St. Anthony's Children's Centre has been cleared.

There were four people in hospital with the virus as of Tuesday, August 24, and the health unit says there are still no patients in intensive care.

OPH continues to monitor two community outbreaks of COVID-19; one stemming from sports and recreation, and another from a retail workplace.

More than 79 per cent of all Ottawa residents over the age of 18 are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Wednesday, August 25. When looking at all residents over 12, the full vaccination rate remains at 78 per cent. Single-dose numbers are also unchanged, at 85 per cent.

Ontario reported 660 new infections on Wednesday with 525 (about 80 per cent) of those involving people who are not fully vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. 

OPH is confirming 19 new cases of COVID-19 in the city and adding 17 new cases to its Delta variant tally. Over the course of the pandemic,the health unit says there have been 271 cases of the Delta variant in Ottawa; 175 in the last 30 days.

There have been 139 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Ottawa in the last week.

OPH says it knows of 156 active cases of the virus in the community.

Ottawa's weekly COVID-19 incidence rate is down to 13.2 per 100,000 residents.

The local positivity rate is 1.6 per cent. It's been fluctuating between 1.5 and 1.6 per cent for the last couple of weeks now.

There have been 28,175 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa (27,426 resolved) since the spring of 2020.

Ottawa's pandemic death toll remains at 593 as there hasn't been a COVID-19-related death reported in the city since July 8, 2021.