coronavirus case counts continue to fluctuate as the city’s intensive care units continue to fill with COVID-19 patients.Ottawa Public Health reported an increase of 179 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, nearly triple Tuesday’s rise.
Ottawa’s coronavirus case counts have varied widely over the past week, but the city’s seven-day average remains just below 150 cases per day.No new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday, leaving the city’s death toll of the pandemic at 398.The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is back up to 1,207, OPH’s dashboard shows.Two new coronavirus outbreaks were declared in Ottawa, but because the number of resolved outbreaks outpaced new ones, the total number of ongoing outbreaks dropped to.