COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Ottawa on Sunday. After New Year's Day, there were no local updates.
COVID-19 killed two people aged 70 to 89, bringing the total to 623 since the pandemic began.
Ottawa has one more COVID-19 patient in ICU, but the total hospital population has remained stable since Friday.
Ottawa Public Health reported 2,425 new cases in two days, though testing availability is limited by the province. There are over 8,500 known active cases.
Ottawa's seven-day average of new cases is 849, up from 576.9 last week and 51.7 four weeks ago.
On Sunday, health officials in Ontario confirmed 16,714 new COVID-19 cases, with 16 deaths.
COVID-19 has landed at least 1,117 people in hospital in Ontario, according to Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott. Ontario ICUs have 224 COVID-19 patients.
On Sunday, no information about infected people or hospitalized patients was available.
DEC 25–31 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 (Dec 25–31): 566.5 (up from 483.2)
Positive rate in Ottawa (December 24-30): 28.5%
Reproduction rate (average): 0.92
A reproduction value of 1 indicates that the virus is spreading and infecting multiple contacts. If less than 1, spread is slowing.
