Another shipment of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Ottawa while two more schools declare outbreaks

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says another 9,360 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in the capital, as 41 new cases of the virus and two school outbreaks are confirmed in the city.

One student has contracted COVID-19 at Osgoode Township High School, while three students have been infected at École élémentaire publique Des Sentiers.

Those are two of four schools currently dealing with outbreaks of the virus, according to OPH's COVID-19 dasboard. There are 22 healthcare institutions, four childcare centres, three workplaces and one community organization also on outbreak status.

OPH says the latest shipment of vaccines arrived on Monday, February 22. The city has now received 57,820 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and has seen 48,278 of them administered.

The City of Ottawa has vaccinated all local retirement home residents at least once and says it will start inoculating members of high-risk communities, over the age of 80, starting next week.

OPH says there are 446 active cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, Wednesday. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are unchanged at 21, with eight patients now in intensive care.

No new deaths due to the novel coronavirus leaves the city's pandemic death toll at 437.

The health unit says 2.1 per cent of residents being tested for COVID-19 are seeing positive results.

There have been 14,470 lab-confirmed cases of the virus in Ottawa since March of last year, of which 13,587 have been resolved.

Ontario is reporting 1,054 new cases of COVID-19, Wednesday, including six in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region, two in the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark district and none in Renfrew County.