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COVID-19: Ottawa registers first death in weeks; OPH launches webpage for info for parents
Author of the article:
Taylor Blewett
Publishing date:
Aug 18, 2020 • Last Updated 6 hours ago • 7 minute read
A health worker takes a patient's temperature before sending them to a tent to be tested. Valerie Macon / AFP via GETTY IMAGES
What you need to know, at a glance:
ottawacitizen.com
Author of the article:
Taylor Blewett
Publishing date:
Aug 18, 2020 • Last Updated 6 hours ago • 7 minute read
What you need to know, at a glance:
- Ottawa’s public health officials will inform the public about a COVID-19 outbreak in a school after two confirmed cases with a school-related link are identified, according to draft provincial guidelines.
- Ottawa Public Health reports eight new cases and the first COVID-19 death in weeks, bringing the local death toll to 265
- Two new institutional outbreaks: Billingswood Manor LTC home (one staff case) and Residence St. Louis LTC home (one staff case)
- OPH launches COVID-19 page with info and resources for parents
- Health officials aiming to increase testing in Ottawa to 5,000-7,000 tests daily
- No new cases in eastern Ontario, outside of Ottawa
- Ontario reports ‘uptick’ of 125 new cases of COVID-19 and four new deaths
- The province is investing $3.8 million to help provide hearing checks to babies who didn’t receive a newborn screen for hearing loss because of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Province ends controversial police access to a COVID-19 database after a legal challenge was filed by a group of human rights organizations
- Hundreds of Ottawa public elementary teachers seeking work accommodations because they’re concerned about returning to the classroom
- Quebec announces action plan for possible second wave of COVID-19 in the fall. One Kky measure includes limiting orderlies work to one site
- Quebec has launched a hiring blitz and training of an additional 8,000 orderlies, with another 2,000 to begin training in September
COVID-19: Ottawa registers first death in weeks; OPH launches webpage for info for parents
Ontario reported 125 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday.
