COVID-19 hospitalizations dip while active cases, rate of virus over last week go up

Ottawa’s hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are seeing a bit of a drop again, while active cases continue to increase.

According to Ottawa Public Health on Sunday, Ottawa is reporting seven people in hospital with the virus (down from yesterday’s nine) and one person in the ICU (down from yesterday’s two).

The number of active cases, on the other hand, have climbed to 394, up from Saturday’s 364.

Meanwhile, 61 new cases are being reported in Ottawa — that’s down from Saturday’s 75. This brings the total number of cases since the pandemic started to 28,889.

It also means Ottawa represents about 7.8 per cent of new cases reported in the province on Sunday.

There is one new outbreak declared at a childcare centre or school, bringing the total number of current ongoing outbreaks to seven. Two ongoing outbreaks continue in the community.

As of Sunday afternoon, OPH has not reported any new cases that involve variants of concern or mutations.

The rate of COVID per 100,000 people in the last seven days has increased to 31.2, from Saturday’s 30.

The local positivity rate remains at 3.5 per cent.

The Eastern Ontario Health Unit is seeing a spike in new cases on Sunday with 16 new cases, up from yesterday’s three.

The Renfrew County and District Health Unit also saw an increase in cases with seven new ones added to the tally, up from the previous day’s zero.

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit is the only health unit to report fewer new cases than the day before, to three from five.

Public Health Ontario is reporting a decrease in cases on Sunday to 784 from Saturday’s 857. This is following two days of reporting numbers in the 800s.

This brings the total number of cases since the pandemic started to 574,619.

However, in the last 24 hours, 738 cases have resolved.

Of the newly reported cases on Sunday, about 61 per cent are among unvaccinated people while about 23 per cent were among fully vaccinated individuals. About eight per cent of new cases include people who are partially vaccinated, with about 7.8 per cent of people whose vaccination status is unknown.

Four deaths were recorded, however, two of the deaths happened more than a month ago and were added to the cumulative count based on data cleaning.

The provincial death toll now stands at 9,611.