coronavirus cases on Friday as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 drops.The local public health unit added 77 new cases to Ottawa’s COVID-19 case count on Friday, more than twice the 37 cases from the day before.Though Friday’s increase is the largest of the week, Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr.
Vera Etches said Tuesday that the pattern of local case reporting tends to rise later in the week as testing volumes generally increase by mid-week.