COVID-19 cases in the nation’s capital to start the week, the first day where new cases of the novel coronavirus came in below 50 in January.Monday’s relatively low case report follows increases of 92 cases on Saturday and 76 cases on Sunday.There have now been 12,977 cases of COVID-19 locally since the start of the pandemic, with 869 of those cases currently considered active — a drop from the day before.Additionally, no new deaths were reported in connection with COVID-19, leaving Ottawa’s death toll of the pandemic at 419.The percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive in Ottawa dropped to three per cent as of Monday, down from 3.2 per cent in the previous week.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus.