OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health says 63 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, the lowest number of new cases reported so far this January.
This follows four straight days of triple-digit increases, including two that had more than 200 cases per day. Across the province, health officials reported 2,903 new cases of COVID-19 after eight straight days of case counts above 3,000 per day.
Forty-one more Ontarians have died. Public Health Ontario reported 68 cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. Different data extraction times sometimes lead to discrepancies in daily case reporting between OPH and the province.