Ottawa Public Health is reporting 38 new cases of the novel coronavirus to start the week.
There have now been 8,801 coronavirus cases locally since the start of the pandemic, 413 of which are considered active. That’s down slightly from 414 active cases the day before.
One additional person with COVID-19 has died in Ottawa, raising the local death toll of the pandemic to 381.
There are currently 32 people in hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa, a slight bump from the day before, with one patient in intensive care.
No new coronavirus outbreaks were declared on Monday, leaving the number of ongoing local outbreaks at 30. An outbreak at the Glebe Centre long-term care home officially ended over the weekend with 39 people connected with the facility testing positive for the virus and four residents dying as a result of COVID-19.
Ottawa’s coronavirus positivity rate dipped to 1.4 per cent for the week between Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, down from 1.5 per cent in the previous period.
The city’s reproduction number — the average number of people testing positive in connection to a typical case — continues to hover around one, with the estimated seven-day average at 1.03 as of Monday.
Public health officials would like to see the reproduction number drop below one, as it did briefly this past weekend, which indicates the spread of the virus in the community is slowing rather than spreading.
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