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以色列疫苗打了82%，现在阳性率还6.8%，渥太华疫苗抢不到，阳性率能低于2%，算不错了。
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COVID-19: Ottawa numbers inch closer to "red" zone; Ontario says vaccine rollout up to local health units
Ottawa’s current weekly average test positivity rate is 2.3 per cent.Author of the article: Aedan Helmer
Publishing date: Feb 22, 2021
What you need to know, at a glance
- Ottawa’s troubling trends could see the city inching closer to a provincial “Red” (Control) zone with gradually increasing weekly averages in key indicators.
- Premier Doug Ford and solicitor general Sylvia Jones confirmed Monday the local vaccine rollout plans will be up to each of the province’s 34 public health units.
- Ontario has 1,058 new cases of COVID-19 and 11 deaths.
- 55 new cases and one death are reported in Ottawa, according to the local public health unit.
- There are five new cases in the Eastern Ontario region.
- The province has now administered 569,455 total vaccine doses.
- Ottawa has administered 46,559 total doses of vaccines, and received a shipment of 9,360 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week.
For a region to remain at the “Orange” (Restrict) level of restrictions, weekly average cases must be below 40 per 100,000 population. Ottawa is currently at 37.3 cases per 100,000 in the past week.
Test positivity averages must also be between 1.3 and 2.4 per cent positive. Ottawa’s current weekly average test positivity rate is 2.3 per cent.
Another key indicator is the R(t) number, which measures the secondary cases generated by a single confirmed COVID-19 infection. That number must be between 1.0 and 1.1 to remain in Orange.
Ottawa is currently near the Red level threshold with a 1.15 R(t) number.
Any score above 1.0 indicates the virus is spreading in the community, while any number below 1.0 indicates the spread is coming under control.
Meanwhile, one new death was reported in Ottawa, with 55 new confirmed cases, according to OPH data released Monday afternoon.
There are currently 477 active cases in the city, which is roughly the same number as it was two weeks ago on Feb. 8. Active case counts had been steadily declining over the last several weeks, but have recently been trending upward in Ottawa, with a similar trend in the city’s daily case counts.
Ottawa’s hospitalization rate had been declining through February, but has also seen a recent uptick in admissions and in severe cases. There are currently 22 patients in hospital, with six of those now being treated in ICU.
No new outbreaks were reported in health-care settings, where there are 21 ongoing facility-wide outbreaks, or in schools or child-care settings, where there are six ongoing outbreaks.
There have now been 14,404 total cases in Ottawa since the beginning of the pandemic and 437 related deaths.
Provincial
As Ontario’s vaccine supply ramps up over the coming weeks and months, Premier Doug Ford and solicitor general Sylvia Jones confirmed Monday the local vaccine rollout plans will be up to each of the province’s 34 public health units.
“We are ensuring the people who work most closely with their communities are making the decisions on what is the fastest, easiest and most equitable way for people to get the vaccines they need,” Jones said.
The PHUs will be “empowered” to make those decisions, Jones said, as the vaccine doses supplied to the province will be distributed to each PHU based on population.
“That distribution will happen very equitably, and we are confident those 34 public health units are reacting and responding to the needs in their local communities,” Jones said.
Ford responded to reports that some hospital workers were getting vaccinated ahead of some seniors and other priority groups, saying, “They have to follow the guidelines.”
There have been some isolated cases at vaccination centres where workers have jumped ahead in line for vaccines after scheduled appointments were cancelled, for instance, though the premier said “the vast majority” are following the priority protocols already outlined by the province.
“We want to make sure that every single dose that comes out of those vials is used,” Jones said. “And if there is an opportunity … either when someone doesn’t show up for an appointment, or it’s near the end of the shift and they have doses left, we want to make sure those doses aren’t wasted.”
Jones said provincial priority guidelines are “clear.”
“We want to make sure our most (vulnerable) seniors get the vaccines first, followed by the priority populations like health-care workers working on the front line with COVID-positive patients.”
Ontario is reporting 1,058 new laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases Monday and 11 related deaths.
The Greater Toronto Area remains a provincial hotspot, and will remain under lockdown following last week’s extension of the provincial restrictions in Toronto, which reported 325 cases Monday, and with 215 new cases in Peel. There were 87 new cases in York region.
Ontario completed 31,163 tests in the previous 24-hour period with a 3.3 per cent positivity rate.
There have now been 294,144 total COVID-19 cases in Ontario since the beginning of the pandemic and 6,872 related deaths.
Another 1,083 cases were resolved in the previous 24-hour period, and 276,937 cases are now considered resolved.
Ontario’s hospitalization rate continues its gradual decline, though the number of severe cases has remained relatively constant over the past several weeks.
There are currently 646 patients in Ontario hospitals, 280 in intensive care and of those, 189 require a ventilator.
New local testing site to open
The AMA Community Centre in Ottawa South will be hosting COVID-19 pop-up testing site at 1216 Hunt Club Rd., with its community hall to be used as a testing site on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.
The centre is partnering with the Ottawa Hospital, CHEO, Ottawa Public Health, and Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre to promote the clinics in the Sawmill Creek neighbourhood in the city’s south end.
The clinics will operate from 8 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays and community residents can book an appointment by phone. Same-day arrivals can also be accommodated.
Cases in Eastern Ontario
There were five new cases in the Eastern Ontario region, which includes Cornwall and Alexandria, one in Kingston and two in Renfrew County.
No new cases were reported Monday in Hastings or in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark.
Vaccinations and variants
On the vaccination front, Ontario has now administered 569,455 total vaccine doses, an increase of 12,922 shots in the past 24-hour period.
Ottawa received a shipment of 9,360 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last week, and has now received 48,460 total doses from Pfizer and Moderna.
The city has administered 46,559 total doses, and according to recently updated figures, has now administered first doses to 84 per cent of high-risk retirement home residents. Of those residents, one per cent have been fully immunized with both doses.
Public health officials are also tracking the spread of variants of concern in the province.
One case of the B.1.1.7 (U.K.) variant was deleted from the database, which Public Health Ontario explains is due to data corrections during the variant confirmation process.
No new cases of any variants of concern were reported in Monday’s data.
There are now 390 known cases of the U.K. variant in Ontario. That includes eight known cases of that variant in Ottawa.
There is also one known case of the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant in Ottawa.
Vaccinations have begun for Ottawa’s Inuit community, with the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team offering vaccinations to the city’s urban Inuit population. Appointments can be booked by phone at 613-740-0999.
COVID-19: Ottawa numbers inch closer to "red" zone; Ontario says vaccine rollout up to local health units
Ottawa’s current weekly average test positivity rate is 2.3 per cent.
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