OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 58 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19. It's a slight increase over figures released on Friday, but it's also the 16th day in a row that Ottawa has seen fewer than 100 new cases.
The city has seen 13,597 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. No new deaths were reported on Saturday, leaving the city's pandemic death toll at 422 residents.
Weekly trends have been on the decline lately, with Ottawa seeing its lowest positivity rate since Christmas this week. Saturday's update pushed the weekly per capita case rate to just under 30 cases per 100,000 residents, according to Ottawa Public Health data.