COVID-19: Ottawa hospitalizations doubling every 12 days; Ontario daily case count jumps back above 4,000
Ottawa Public Health reported 329 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths on Wednesday.
That brings the city’s total number of cases to 20,596, with 2,755 of them active. There have been 479 deaths.
OPH reported 92 patients in hospital with 23 of them in intensive care.
The number of outbreaks in the city’s health care institutions remains unchanged at 18, but there were four new outbreaks in schools and childcare settings reported for a total of 22. Ten outbreaks in the community remain ongoing, but OPH reported no new ones.
After a dip in new cases on Tuesday, Ontario’s daily COVID-19 count is again over 4,000.
Health Minister Christine Elliott reported 4,156 new cases Wednesday. The hot spots continue to be Toronto with 1,254, 593 in Peel, 476 in York and 248 in Durham.
The provincial number is a jump of nearly 500 from the 3,670 new cases reported Tuesday. It is the third time in four days Ontario has reported more than 4,000 cases in a day.
Ontario’s hospitals continue to fill with COVID-19 cases, with 55 more admissions reported Wednesday bringing the total number of people in hospital to 1,877. Of those, 642 are in intensive care and 442 on ventilators, a jump of 20 from the day before.
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