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- Ottawa reports its highest number of COVID-19 deaths one per month since vaccines were approved.
- The city’s COVID-19 hospitalization count is little changed from Friday.
- Sixty per cent of adults in Ottawa have now received a third dose of the vaccine.
Hospitals
There are now 103 Ottawa residents in local hospitals for treatment of active COVID-19, according to Saturday’s update from Ottawa Public Health (OPH).
This number generally rose for most of the month, but fell slightly from Friday.
Sixteen of those patients are in an intensive care unit, one more than Friday.
These hospital numbers may shift as hospital information is processed and reported. Using this information, Ottawa actually had 142 patients hospitalized with COVID on January 19, which set a new record for hospitalizations.
They do not include people who came to the hospital for other reasons and later tested positive for COVID-19. They also do not cover people with persistent COVID issues or patients transferred from other health units.
This graph from OPH breaks down the number of patients in local hospitals by category, as of Wednesday.
Hospitals are also challenged on another level by the growing spread because staff shortages reduce their capacity. Additionally, 39 hospital outbreaks have been reported by OPH, which is stable.
Other numbers to watch
the average level of coronavirus in Ottawa’s sewagewhich does not rely on COVID-19 testing, hit an all-time high earlier in January and is now down.
Officials say now the wave of Omicron seems to have reached a plateau.
The number of cases has reached record highs in many places this winter – and as the Omicron variant spreads overwhelms and limits testingthe actual number of cases in Ottawa is several times higher and some familiar numbers are affected.
On Saturday, OPH reported another 311 cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths.
The city has reported 67 COVID deaths this month, surpassing the 60 reported in May 2021 — the most in a month since COVID vaccines were approved.
The test positivity rate for those who received PCR tests outside of long-term care homes continues to hover around 20%. The average in these houses is similar.
The seven-day rolling average of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 population is around 200. Limited testing capacity makes this measure less reliable.
Vaccines
907 573: The number of Ottawa residents aged five and older with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, about 800 more than the last update on Wednesday. This represents 91% of the eligible population.
854 952: The number of Ottawa residents aged five and older with a second dose, up about 2,900 from Wednesday. Eighty-five percent of the eligible population now receives at least two doses.
506 464: The number of Ottawans aged 18 and older with a third dose, about 5,300 since Wednesday. It covers 60%. 100 of these residents. Eligibility is extremely limited for children under 18 and 950 had their third.
52,621: The number of children in Ottawa between the ages of 5 and 11 who received their first dose of the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine, or 67% of that age group. About 18,200, or 23%, receive two doses.
In the whole region
Outside of Ottawa, the greater region has about 190 COVID-19-related hospitalizations, of which about 30 require intensive care. These numbers are stable and do not include Hastings Prince Edward Public Health (HPE), which instituted another way of accounting.
On Friday, HPE reported two more deaths from COVID-19 and its hospitalizations remained stable. The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit reported another COVID death on Friday and stable hospital numbers.
Three of six health units in Eastern Ontario recorded more COVID deaths in January 2022 than any other month of the pandemic.
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