OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting the lowest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases in Ottawa this week. Forty-one new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ottawa on Friday, along with no new deaths.
Nineteen of the new cases reported in Ottawa involve residents between the ages of 20 and 29. Across Ontario, there were 409 new cases of COVID-19, including 204 in Toronto and 66 in Peel Region.
In Ottawa, the 41 new cases of COVID-19 was the lowest one-day increase in new cases since Sept. 20. Ottawa Public Health reported a one-day record of 93 new cases on Tuesday, and 82 new cases on Thursday.
Since the first case of COVID-19 in Ottawa on March 11, there have been 3,960 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 280 deaths.