COVID-19 in the city.Ottawa first entered the red-control level of Ontario’s COVID-19 reopening framework on Friday, March 19.At that time, the city’s weekly COVID-19 incidence rate stood at 49.1 cases per 100,000 people with 2.7 per cent of all coronavirus tests coming back positive.As of Tuesday, Ottawa’s incidence rate has jumped to 85 cases per 100,000 population and the city’s coronavirus positivity rate was 5.0 per cent in the past week.
Single-day increases in COVID-19 cases have also been in the triple digits for nearly a week.While incidence rates of 40 cases per 100,000 and positivity rates of 2.5 per cent warrant a shift from the orange-restrict to the red-control zone on Ontario’s framework, there is no set threshold for putting.