OPH reports 52 more COVID-19 cases

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported 52newCOVID-19 cases Mondayas the number of patients in hospitalremains relatively stable.

A total of 6,088 Ottawa residents have now tested positive for COVID-19, including759 active case, 5,026resolved cases and 303 deaths.

Forty-eight patients are currently in hospital for treatment for COVID-19, one more than Sunday. Eight are in intensive care.

Based on these interim daily reports, adjusted later when OPH determines when individuals became infections versus when they learned of their positive test, Ottawa's rolling seven-day average of newly confirmed cases has dropped five of the last sixdays from its all-time high.

That number is still around where it peaked during the first wave in late April, and much higher than whenOttawa's second wave was declared just over a month agoon Sept. 18.

The percentage of tests that come backpositive remains at 2.5 per cent, around where it has been for days.

OPH learns about a positive test within 48 hours 71 per cent of the time, a slight improvement overlate last week. OPH will release more details about the currenttesting backlog later this afternoon.

Ottawa's newest testing site at theRay Friel Recreation Complex inOrlansis now open weekdays, but laboratory capacity also factors into the backlog.

There is a new outbreak at the Peak Academy, ahockey-focused school located atthe Bell Sensplex, and theoutbreak is over at Abraar ElementarySchool. Active outbreaks have been declared in nine Ottawa schools.

In a break from the norm, slightly more than half of the new cases reported Monday are people over the age of 40.

Elsewhere, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit east and south of Ottawa logged 26 more cases over the weekend for a total of 435.

More than half that region's known cases have come since the end of August.