Ottawa adds new COVID-19 cases involving variants of concern, mutations

COVID-19 numbers in Ottawa remain largely unchanged with the exception of newly added cases, including that of variants of concern.

Ottawa Public Health reported 30 new cases of the virus on Sunday, bringing the number of confirmed cases since the pandemic started to 28,294.

This means Ottawa represents over four per cent of total cases across the province on Sunday.

The health unit is also reporting seven new cases that involve variants of concern in the city. In the last 30 days, 45 per cent of cases reported involved variants of concern or mutations.

Hospitalizations remain unchanged at seven, with one person in the ICU.

Active cases are also frozen at 201 and there are no new deaths to report, keeping the local death toll at 593.

There are no new or ongoing outbreaks anywhere in the city, meaning the two ongoing community outbreaks reported on Saturday are now cleared.

The positivity rate isn't moving from Saturday's report at 1.6 per cent.

On Sunday, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit has added 10 new cases to its tally — down from yesterday’s 11.

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit also added new five cases to its count while the Renfrew County and District Health Unit added one.

After cracking into the 800s on Saturday, Ontario is now reporting 740 new cases of the virus across the province.

The last time the province reported case numbers in the 700s was on August 22 when Ontario recorded 722 new cases.

In total in the last week, Ontario recorded 4,819 new cases of COVID-19 across the province.

This brings Ontario’s total count since the pandemic started to 564,331.

Two new deaths have been reported, as well, increasing the death toll to 9,498.

And in the last 24 hours, 561 cases have resolved.

There are also 158 patients in the ICU (down four from Saturday), and 98 on a ventilator (an increase of 11).

Of those who are in hospital but not in the ICU, 140 are unvaccinated, 27 are fully vaccinated and 16 are partially vaccinated.

In the ICU, however, 90 are unvaccinated, nine are fully vaccinated and six are partially vaccinated.