COVID-19, according to the local public health unit’s latest report Wednesday.Ottawa Public Health said five people died in connection with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll of the pandemic locally to 503 since March 2020.OPH also added 217 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, though the number of active infections in the city continued to fall to 2,363.The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases also dropped to 196.6 on Wednesday, down from just under 200 the day before.