COVID-19 in Ottawa: Active cases remain below 200

OTTAWA – Ottawa Public Health says 29 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ottawa, but the number of active cases remains stable.

To date, PHO has reported 30,883 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. No new deaths were reported on Monday. The death toll from the city’s pandemic stands at 603 inhabitants.

The number of known active cases remains below 200, but the number of people in local hospitals with active COVID-19 again increased slightly on Monday. The number of cases remains relatively low, but has doubled in the past four days.

The seven-day average in Ottawa is 23.6 cases per day, up from 27.9 a week ago and 49.4 four weeks ago.

A COVID-19 outbreak at the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus has grown to 10 patients and two staff since it began on October 26. Outbreaks are also in effect at nine local elementary schools, two daycares, a restaurant and a shelter.

Across the province, authorities have reported 422 new cases of COVID-19. This pushed the province’s total laboratory-confirmed cases spent 600,000.

Public Health Ontario added 38 cases to its total for Ottawa on Monday, which is slightly lower than the PHO total of 30,866. PHO’s numbers often differ from those of Public Health Ontario because the two health agencies pull data for their respective daily snapshots at different times of the day.

KEY STATISTICS ON COVID-19 IN OTTAWA

Ottawa Public Health data:

• COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (October 24 to October 30): 15.1 (up from 14.5)

• Positivity rate in Ottawa (Oct 25 to Oct 31): 1.5% (vs. 1.4% from Oct 22 to 28)

• Number of reproductions (seven-day average): 0.98 (instead of 0.94)

Reproduction values ​​greater than 1 indicate that the virus is spreading and that each case infects more than one contact. If it is less than 1, it means that the propagation is slowing down.

NON-VACCINATED CASES

Of Monday’s 422 new cases, 261 are in people who are not fully vaccinated or have unknown vaccination status and 161 are in people who are fully vaccinated.

Complete data on the vaccine status of hospital patients in the province is not available on Monday, as some hospitals do not report to the province on weekends.

Locally, data from Ottawa Public Health suggests that unvaccinated people are nine times more likely to contract COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

COVID-19 VACCINES IN OTTAWA

Ottawa Public Health updates vaccine numbers on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Starting Monday :

• Ottawa residents with 1 dose (12+): 832 799 (+975)

• Ottawa residents with 2 doses (12+): 799 101 (+2 104)

• Share of the population aged 12 and over with at least one dose: 90%

• Proportion of the population aged 12 and over fully vaccinated: 87% (+ 1%)

• Total doses received in Ottawa: 1,372,642

* Total doses received do not include doses shipped to pharmacies and primary care clinics, but statistics for Ottawa residents with one or two doses include anyone with an Ottawa postal code who has been vaccinated n anywhere in Ontario.

ACTIVE COVID-19 CASES IN OTTAWA

There are 197 active cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday, unchanged from Sunday.

Ottawa Public Health has reported 29 other newly resolved cases of COVID-19. The total number of resolved cases of coronavirus in Ottawa is 30,083.

The number of active cases is the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 minus the number of resolved cases and deaths. A case is considered resolved 14 days after the onset of known symptoms or a positive test result.

HOSPITALIZATIONS IN OTTAWA

There are 12 people in Ottawa-area hospitals with COVID-19-related illnesses on Monday, up from 11 on Sunday.

Two people are in intensive care in Ottawa with an active case of COVID-19.

Age categories of hospitalized people:

• 0-9: 0

• 10-19: 0

• 20-29: 0

• 30-39: 1

• 40-49: 0

• 50-59: 0

• 60-69: 2

• 70-79: 4 (2 in intensive care)

• 80-89: 3

• 90+: 2

(Ottawa Public Health is now reporting people hospitalized with an “active” infection)

COVID-19 CASES IN OTTAWA BY AGE CATEGORY

• 0-9 years: five new cases (2,886 cases in total)

• 10-19 years: eight new cases (4,117 cases in total)

• 20-29 years: two new cases (6,892 cases in total)

• 30-39 years: Six new cases (4,742 cases in total)

• 40-49 years: Four new cases (4,058 cases in total)

• 50-59 years: One new case (3,543 cases in total)

• 60-69 years: two new cases (2,080 cases in total)

• 70-79 years: Zero new cases (1,148 cases in total)

• 80-89 years: Zero new cases (878 cases in total)

• 90 years and over: two new cases (536 cases in total)

• Unknown: Zero new cases (3 cases in total)

VARIANTS OF CONCERN

Ottawa Public Health data:

• Total number of Alpha cases (B.1.1.7): 6,850

• Total number of beta cases (B.1.351): 513

• Total number of gamma cases (P.1): 55

• Total Delta cases (B.1.617.2): 834

• Total number of variants of concern / mutation cases: 11,464

• Deaths linked to variants / mutations: 108

* OPH notes that trends in VOCs and mutations should be treated with caution due to the varying time required to perform VOC testing and / or genomic analysis after the initial positive test for SARS-CoV-2. Test results may be completed in batches, and corrections or updates to data may result in changes in the number of cases that may differ from previous reports.

COVID-19 TEST

The Ottawa COVID-19 Testing Task Force says 898 swabs were processed at local assessment centers on Sunday and labs performed 1,503 tests.

The average time from when a swab is taken from a test site to the result is 20 hours.

CASES OF COVID-19 IN THE REGION

• Eastern Ontario Health Unit: Four New Cases

• Hastings Prince Edward Public Health: One case subtracted from total

• Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health: Eight New Cases

• Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: zero new cases

• Renfrew County & District Health Unit: A New Case

COVID-19 OUTBREAKS

Ottawa Public Health reports COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities and community outbreaks in Ottawa.

Community epidemics:

• Workplace – Restaurant: An outbreak

Schools and daycares currently experiencing outbreaks: (nine elementary schools, two daycares)

• Charlotte Lemieux Public Elementary School (Oct. 14)

• D. Roy Kennedy Public School (October 15)

• Childcare – Barrhaven (Oct 18)

• St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Elementary School (October 19)

• Growing Together child care George-Étienne-Cartier (Oct. 20)

• Des Sentiers Public Elementary School (Oct. 21)

• George-Étienne-Cartier Catholic Elementary School (Oct. 22)

• Assomption Catholic Elementary School (Oct. 25)

• Queen Elizabeth Public School (October 27)

• Des Pionniers Catholic Elementary School (Oct. 27)

• Michaëlle-Jean Public Elementary School (Oct. 28)

Health facilities and places of assembly experiencing epidemics:

• The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus – Units A2, A5, B5 (Oct 26)

• Shelter (Oct 26)