Ottawa’s ICUs remain empty of COVID-19 patients for second day; fewer than 100 new cases over last week

By Dani-Elle Dubé

Ottawa’s ICUs continue to be empty of COVID-19 patients while the city has only reported 61 new cases in the last seven days.

For the first time since June 9, 2021, Ottawa Public Health is reporting only three new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday — that’s down from Thursday’s five.

While this is the first time the city has reported this many cases since last June, the city did report only one new case of the virus on June 28 of this year.

Ottawa’s total case count since the pandemic now stands at 27,679.

No new deaths have been recorded, keeping the local death toll at 591.

Active cases remain at 76 for the second day in a row.

Resolved cases, too, remain at 27,009.

The number of patients in hospital with the virus remains at three for the second day.

One new community outbreak has been recorded in Ottawa, bringing the ongoing outbreak count to two.

However, there are no new outbreaks declared at healthcare institutions (keeping the number of ongoing outbreaks at one) or in childcare centres and schools.

In fact, there are no ongoing outbreaks at childcare centres and schools at all.

The incident rate in Ottawa is down to 4.6 per 100,000 cases, down from yesterday’s 5.8.

The positivity rate in the community remains at 0.7 per cent.

So far, OPH reports that 976,570 doses have been administered — that’s 88 per cent of OPH’s inventory.

The Ontario government reports two new cases in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit — up from yesterday’s zero.

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit has only one new case to report, which was the same as Thursday.

And only one new case was reported in Renfrew County and District, up from yesterday’s zero.

In all, Ontario reported 200 cases of COVID-19, bringing the total count since the pandemic started to 545,381.

There are also nine new deaths, bringing the total death toll to 9,196.

Resolved cases have increased by 281.

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