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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. Ottawa council backs Ontario paid sick leave ahead of expected announcement Dr.

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Closing more businesses could prevent COVID-19 outbreaks, Ottawa’s top doc says

COVID-19 pandemic is a more effective way for the city to limit the spread of the virus than other regions in Ontario moving to shut down specific sites facing large outbreaks.The top doctors of Toronto and Peel Region both issued Section 22 orders this week to close any workplace reporting an outbreak with five or more cases of COVID-19.Dr.

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Ottawa sees record new COVID-19 cases, spike in variants of concern

COVID-19 variants of concern (VOC) spiked in Ottawa over the past 24 hours as the city’s public health unit reports a series of troubling new figures in the novel coronavirus pandemic.Ottawa Public Health reported 242 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest single-day increase in new cases locally.

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Ottawa’s top doc says COVID-19 in schools ‘manageable’, but leaves door open for online shift

COVID-19 transmission in schools does not currently warrant a shift to online-only learning.Dr. Vera Etches sent a letter to the directors of Ottawa’s four school boards on Tuesday outlining her position on keeping schools open amid a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Multiple public health units in the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario have made decisions to close some schools to in-person learning in the past 24 hours due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the province’s third wave of the pandemic.

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Ottawa’s top doctor hopes upcoming COVID-19 shutdown could be the last one

COVID-19 vaccines increasingly protect the city’s most vulnerable residents.Premier Doug Ford and senior ministers announced Thursday afternoon that the entire province will enter a 28-day “emergency brake” shutdown on Saturday at 12:01 a.m.New limitations will prohibit both indoor and patio dining at restaurants, force the closure of gyms and put tighter caps on the number of people allowed inside grocery stores and other shops.Ford also asked residents to limit their trips outside the home to essential purposes only.The move comes a day after Ottawa’s medical officer of health, Dr.

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COVID-19: Ottawa’s top doctor asks to move city into grey-lockdown zone before long weekend

COVID-19 framework as surging levels of the virus threaten to overwhelm the city’s health-care system.Dr. Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, said Wednesday that she has asked her counterparts at the provincial level to shift the nation’s capital into the grey-lockdown zone from the red-control level before the upcoming long weekend.

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Ottawa likely moving to Ontario’s COVID-19 red zone within the week: Dr. Etches

COVID-19 in Ottawa will likely warrant a shift from the orange-restrict level to the red-control zone on Ontario’s reopening framework in the coming days, the city’s top doctor said Tuesday.Dr. Vera Etches said that multiple COVID-19 monitoring indicators in the nation’s capital have been firmly in the red zone for numerous days now.

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Coronavirus: 2 deaths, 52 COVID-19 cases reported in Ottawa

COVID-19 indicators are dropping in Ottawa as the city prepares to mark one year of the novel coronavirus pandemic.Ottawa Public Health reported 52 new cases of the virus on Wednesday, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases locally to 15,259.Some key viral indicators in Ottawa that were approaching the threshold for the red-control zone on Ontario’s reopening framework appear to be reversing course.The coronavirus incidence rate in Ottawa is now down to 35.6 cases per 100,000 people from 36.8 cases on Tuesday, moving the city further from the 40 infections per 100,000 that warrants a shift into the red.The city’s coronavirus positivity rate is also down slightly to 2.1 per cent in the past week.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for

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Dr. Etches watching COVID-19 levels in Ottawa ‘very carefully’

COVID-19 levels in the nation’s capital hover along the threshold to move the city into Ontario’s red zone on the coronavirus reopening framework.Ottawa Public Health added 40 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday with the number of active cases holding relatively steady at 512.One additional person has died in connection with COVID-19 in Ottawa, raising the city’s death toll of the pandemic to 444.

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Coronavirus: Up to 83 COVID-19 variant cases identified in Ottawa, Dr. Etches says

Novel coronavirus variants of concern could be much wider spread in Ottawa than provincial COVID-19 data shows, according to the city’s medical officer of health.Dr. Vera Etches said in a press conference on Wednesday that while the number of COVID-19 variant cases confirmed via genetic sequencing in Ottawa remains at 10, screening for these mutated strains has shown 73 additional cases that are “likely” to be confirmed as one of the variants of concern.This would bring the total number of COVID-19 variant cases in the nation’s capital to 83.

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Ottawa adds 56 COVID-19 cases ahead of provincial decision on coronavirus restrictions

COVID-19 monitoring indicators appear stable as the city awaits a provincial decision on whether or not to tighten coronavirus reopening restrictions in the nation’s capital.Ottawa Public Health reported 56 new cases of the virus on Friday and no new deaths related to COVID-19.There have now been 14,588 total cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic with 486 cases currently considered active.The seven-day average of new cases remained steady at 52 per day as of Friday.Dr.

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Coronavirus: ‘Real possibility’ Ottawa moves to red zone next week, Etches says

coronavirus restrictions less than two weeks after emerging from a province-wide lockdown.Dr. Vera Etches said in a presentation to Ottawa city council on Wednesday morning that COVID-19 trends in the nation’s capital are moving in the wrong direction and the province could act as soon as next week to impose tighter restrictions on the city under the colour-coded reopening framework.“We are not heading towards yellow.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa will start vaccinating seniors aged 80-plus on March 5 via pop-up sites

coronavirus vaccines to residents aged 80 and up in neighbourhoods with the highest rates of COVID-19 transmission on March 5, according to the head of the local vaccine distribution task force.Anthony Di Monte said in an update to city council Wednesday morning that the city will begin vaccinating the most at-risk Ottawa residents outside health-care and congregate care settings via pop-up clinics in neighbourhoods hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Officials push to reopen Ottawa schools, small businesses amid declining COVID-19 rates

novel coronavirus in the nation’s capital appear to be declining.Ottawa Public Health reported 73 new cases of COVID-19 in the city on Wednesday.While the latest daily increase is a jump from recent reports of 58 cases on Monday and 23 cases on Tuesday, the number of active COVID-19 cases and other monitoring indicators are trending downward.Ottawa’s percent positivity dropped to 2.6 per cent as of Wednesday, down from three per cent in the previous week.Data from the city’s wastewater system also suggest levels of the coronavirus in the community are no longer surging as they were in December.Ottawa’s medical officer of health, Dr.

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Ottawa’s top doctor cheers positive trends amid 67 new COVID-19 cases in the capital

COVID-19 metrics in Ottawa are trending in the right direction, local medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches said Wednesday, though it’s too early to declare victory in the city’s latest coronavirus surge.Ottawa Public Health reported 67 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Wednesday and two additional deaths related to COVID-19.There have now been 12,494 cases of the virus locally and 409 deaths in the pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa rinks, sledding hills to remain open amid Ontario stay-home order

novel coronavirus.Ottawa residents are allowed to use outdoor rinks and sledding hills under the new regulations, but must continue to respect the 25-person limits at these sites under the recent class order from Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches.Skaters, sledders and cross-country skiers must maintain a physical distance of two metres and wear a mask while off the ice, though mask-use is still highly encouraged while skating, according to Ottawa Public Health.

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Ottawa in COVID-19 ‘crisis again’; mayor, top doctor support Ontario stay-home order

COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s top doctor said Tuesday as the province moved to enact new stay-at-home orders to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.Dr. Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, told reporters that the rapid growth of coronavirus levels and hospitalizations related to COVID-19 are threatening to overwhelm the city’s health-care system — the same grave warning she gave in October when the city was seeing its last spike in COVID-19 cases.Ottawa Public Health reported 63 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday — fewer than half of Monday’s total — but the trends on other figures are more troubling.

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COVID-19 cases in Ottawa still trending in triple digits; record-breaking active cases

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 184 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, another day of triple-digit increases in the local case count.

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COVID-19 cases in Ottawa still trending in triple digits

OTTAWA -- Ontario health officials are reporting 129 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Sunday, another day of triple-digit increases in the local case count.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa Public Health asks U.K., South Africa travellers to present for testing

coronavirus test to help trace the possible spread of new variants of COVID-19.Dr. Vera Etches said in a news conference Tuesday that the new variants emerging in other parts of the world, especially the faster-spreading variant first identified in the U.K., will affect Ottawa’s ability to flatten the city’s surging COVID-19 curve.“It’s more transmissible.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa skating rinks, sledding hills getting 25-person caps, Dr. Etches says

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Ottawa's COVID-19 positivity rate rises as Ontario sets new record

OTTAWA -- Public health officials in Ottawa reported 48 new COVID-19 cases in the city on Tuesday as Ontario set a record for new infections.

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Ottawa coronavirus infection rates ‘stable’ but no longer declining: Dr. Vera Etches

COVID-19 indicators in the nation’s capital have stabilized as some of the city’s health-care workers roll up their sleeves to receive the coronavirus vaccine early next week.Ottawa Public Health reported 31 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Thursday, raising the total number of cases in the city to 8,894 since the start of the pandemic.Active COVID-19 cases in the city dropped to 354 from 379 the day before while one person died in relation to COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising Ottawa’s death toll of the pandemic to 383.There are currently 30 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa, two of whom are in the intensive care unit.Dr.

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People to thank for Ottawa’s success with curbing COVID-19: health officer

COVID-19 cases continues to rise across Canada, the infection rate in Ottawa has been going in the other direction for weeks, putting the city on the right track to flatten the curve of the pandemic once again.The city’s chief medical officer, Dr. Vera Etches, said much of the credit goes to the people who live here, who have been wearing masks — in some cases, such as on public transit, forced to do so earlier than others across Canada — and staying at home.There was a time in early October when Ottawa, despite its initial success flattening the curve in the spring, experienced a spike in COVID-19 cases that saw the city have double the number of cases seen in Toronto and Peel Region at that time.

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Celebrate Christmas, holidays in Ottawa with immediate household only, Dr. Etches advises

novel coronavirus pandemic.Though Ottawa’s rates of coronavirus infection have entered a “slow decline” in recent weeks, it’s too soon to relax public health directives to encourage in-person gatherings with friends and extended family, Dr. Vera Etches said in an update to city council on Wednesday morning.“This holiday season in 2020 will be unlike any other in our lives,” she said.Her advice for Christmas mirrors previous directives surrounding Halloween and Thanksgiving this year.

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Coronavirus: Ottawa adds 77 COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations drop

coronavirus cases on Friday as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 drops.The local public health unit added 77 new cases to Ottawa’s COVID-19 case count on Friday, more than twice the 37 cases from the day before.Though Friday’s increase is the largest of the week, Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches said Tuesday that the pattern of local case reporting tends to rise later in the week as testing volumes generally increase by mid-week.

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COVID-19 case numbers rise in Ottawa following Tuesday's low numbers

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 22 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa today, the third lowest one-day increase in novel coronavirus cases this month.

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Coronavirus: With new capacity ready, Ottawa task force urging residents to get tested

COVID-19 testing task force is pushing for more residents to get tested for the novel coronavirus as freshly scaled-up lab and assessment centre capacity sits ready for higher demand.Many indicators in Ottawa suggest the city is bucking the province-wide trends of rising coronavirus infection rates as of late.Dr.

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Ottawa sees drop in COVID-19 cases on Friday, one-day after highest case increase in November

OTTAWA -- Six more Ottawa residents have died due to COVID-19

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70 new cases of COVID-19, one new death in Ottawa on Thursday

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 70 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday, the ninth straight day with less than 100 new cases in the capital.

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Ottawa’s health system is in ‘crisis,’ Dr. Etches says amid 142 new coronavirus cases

coronavirus, shattering the previous record of 105 new infections set just a few days prior.The rate at which Ottawa residents are testing positive for the virus is unsustainable, Dr. Vera Etches said in a rare morning press conference to address the COVID-19 situation in Ottawa.She did not announce any new restrictions on residents’ behaviour aimed at stemming the spread of the virus.Instead, she urged everyone in the city to limit their close contacts to their household and one or two essential supports, lest the city’s health-care infrastructure collapse.“I am sounding the alarm.

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Record 142 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 142 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa today, the highest one-day increase in new cases of COVID-19 in the capital since the start of the pandemic.

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40 people had a BBQ at an Ottawa park. Days later 105 people are quarantined for coronavirus

coronavirus, Ottawa public health officials warn.The messaging comes after Ottawa’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Vera Etches on Tuesday said a recent BBQ at a local park led to coronavirus quickly spreading within the community.

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‘We are close to red,’ Dr. Vera Etches says as Ottawa adds 65 new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 database is showing an additional 65 coronavirus cases in Ottawa on Wednesday as the city’s top doctor warns the city may need to raise its virus warning level during the second wave of the pandemic.Dr.

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60 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday

OTTAWA -- Ottawa recorded 60 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, nearing the four-month highs the city recorded last week.

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Ottawa’s top doctor issues isolation order for positive COVID-19 cases, close contacts

a new class order from Ottawa’s medical officer of health, anyone in the city who tests positive for COVID-19, is a close contact of a confirmed case or reasonably suspects they might have contracted the coronavirus must now self-isolate for 14 days or until they test negative, lest they face a $5,000 fine.Dr.

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55 new COVID-19 cases in Ottawa on Saturday, fifth day this week with more than 50 new cases

OTTAWA -- For the fifth day this week, health officials are reporting more than 50 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.

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Ottawa is in a second wave of COVID-19: Dr. Vera Etches

coronavirus on Friday as the city’s top doctor confirms a second wave of the virus is hitting the nation’s capital.Ottawa Public Health (OPH) data shows there are now 458 active cases of the virus in the city.No new deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Friday.Asked by reporters outside the Château Laurier Friday morning whether the city is facing a second wave of the virus, Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr.

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Coronavirus: Halloween in Ottawa should be about behaviour, not rules, Dr. Etches says

coronavirus prevention, not setting hard rules one way or another, amid debates across the province on whether kids should be allowed to trick or treat door-to-door this year.Speaking to media Friday afternoon, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, Dr.

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Ottawa health officials urge university, college students: party smarter

coronavirus pandemic.Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches joined Mayor Jim Watson, the heads of the city’s post-secondary institutions and local law enforcement officials Wednesday afternoon to urge youth to keep the coronavirus in mind when attending — or not attending — parties this upcoming academic year.“This is a very different and difficult year for everyone,” Watson said.While health impacts should be top of mind for students returning to or starting school in September, Watson cited fines associated with the city’s mandatory mask bylaw as “financial consequences” of attending outsized parties.

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COVID-19 update: 17 new cases in Ottawa; active cases rise

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.

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Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Friday

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa.

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Social circles ‘more important than ever’ as kids head back to school, Ottawa’s top doctor says

coronavirus transmission between kids in schools, Ottawa’s medical officer of health said Tuesday.Dr.

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Ottawa must flatten the coronavirus curve again: Dr. Vera Etches

coronavirus infections will overwhelm the city’s health-care system and force the shutdown of schools and businesses in the fall if residents don’t take serious action now to stem the rising tide of COVID-19, the city’s top doctor said Thursday.Dr.

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Sixteen new COVID-19 cases reported Sunday; active cases approaching 100

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 16 new laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, with no new deaths.

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Twenty new COVID-19 cases reported in Ottawa Monday, majority in people under 30

OTTAWA -- For the third day in a row, Ottawa Public Health is reporting a double-digit increase in the number of new, laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the capital, with a majority of the new cases in people under the age of 30.

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Parties to blame for half of 19 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday: Dr. Etches

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health is reporting 19 new laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa Saturday.

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OTTAWA -- Four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ottawa, along with one new death linked to the virus.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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