Ottawa Public Health is reporting 333 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the highest daily case count since mid-April. Two more people are in hospital with active cases.
Ottawa Public Health says another 312 people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, marking the third time in four days that the daily case count has exceeded 300. Hospitalizations remain low.
Ottawa Public Health is urging all residents who have any COVID-19 symptoms to assume they have contracted the virus and self-isolate as testing capacity is pushed to its limit in the face of the Omicron variant.
Quebec recorded on Monday the most cases of COVID-19 in a single day with 4,571 new infections. The number of hospitalizations also spiked by 21 in the last 24 hours.
The Quebec government shut down several public settings as of Monday at 5 p.m., including bars, taverns, casinos, theatres, gyms and even schools, as cases of COVID-19 are soaring in a pre-holiday spike.
Ottawa Public Health says 325 more people in the city have tested positive for COVID-19, and the number of people in hospital ticked up slightly on Tuesday.
Quebec has broken its record of new COVID-19 infections yet again, reporting 5,043 new cases on Tuesday. The province also reported eight more deaths on the first full day of renewed restrictions heading into the holidays.