novel coronavirus on Tuesday, a sizeable drop-off amid a general decline in the city’s day-to-day COVID-19 case count.The local public health unit says there have now been 12,427 cases of the virus locally since the start of the pandemic, with 1,137 cases currently considered active.Ottawa has seen a general decline in the number of new daily COVID-19 cases since OPH reported 148 cases on Friday.
Tuesday’s figures mark the lowest daily increase of the pandemic in Ottawa since the start of 2021.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa is now down to 123 cases per day.Early week case reports tend to be lower than figures released later in the week due to a drop in coronavirus testing over the weekend in Ottawa; 575 people were.