COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the city continues a general decline in new coronavirus infections but faces a growing number of workplace outbreaks.The local public health unit reported an increase of 186 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, which tends to be the lowest day of the week for new cases.The latest daily case count is well below the seven-day average of cases, however, which stood at 302.7 per day in the most recent period on OPH’s COVID-19 dashboard. ‘Hospitals are buckling’: Ontario’s science table makes urgent push for stronger COVID-19 measures There have now been 22,224 cases of the novel coronavirus in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, with 3,360 cases currently considered active.OPH also reported one new death in connection.