OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 25 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19. This brings the city's total to 13,733 cases since the pandemic began.
One more person in Ottawa has died of COVID-19, bringing the pandemic death toll in the city to 427 residents. Across the province, health officials reported 1,022 new cases of COVID-19, alongside 17 deaths and 1,388 newly resolved cases.
Ontario health officials also reported 25 new cases in Ottawa on Tuesday. The province also confirmed Ottawa’s first case of the B.1.351 variant of COVID-19, first discovered in South Africa.
There have also been six confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, first detected in the U.K.. Case counts are typically lower on Tuesdays