Hillel Lodge declares COVID-19 outbreak; 17 new cases reported in Ottawa

By Mike Vlasveld

Posted Sep 9, 2020 04:25:00 PM.

Ottawa Public Health has added Hillel Lodge long-term care home to its list of local institutional COVID-19 outbreaks after a staff member tested positive for the virus.

OPH says the staff member tested positive on Tuesday, September 8.

There are 17 institutions dealing with COVID-19 in Ottawa.

OPH has counted 17 more new lab-confirmed positive cases of the virus across the city, bringing the community to 3,151 since the beginning of the pandemic. There have been 2,659 resolved cases (84.4 per cent) since March.

Active cases are down to 225 in Ottawa, according to OPH. The public health agency reported 249 on Tuesday.

There are 11 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the capital — one of whom is in intensive care.

The last COVID-19-related death in Ottawa was reported by OPH on August 31. The local pandemic death toll remains at 267.

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