novel coronavirus on Friday as the city prepares for its first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine next week.There have now been 8,939 cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic in Ottawa, with 365 of those cases currently considered active.One additional person has died locally due to COVID-19 complications in the past 24 hours, according to OPH, raising the Ottawa death toll of the pandemic to 384.Friday saw a drop in hospitalizations related to the virus, but an uptick of people in intensive care.
There are currently 26 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa, down from 30 the day before, but three people are in the intensive care unit.Two new coronavirus outbreaks in Ottawa retirement homes — Maison Accueil-Sagesse and.