Ottawa Public Health reported its highest daily COVID-19 case count in more than two months on Friday as vaccination rates approach 80 per cent in the nation’s capital.
OPH added 47 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report, raising the number of active cases locally to 185. Friday’s increase marks the largest daily case count since June 3, according to OPH records.
The local health unit’s dashboard shows there have been 300 confirmed or suspected cases of the Delta variant in Ottawa to date, with 192 of those infections coming in the past 30 days.
There are now four people in hospital in Ottawa with COVID-19, one more than the day before. One COVID-19 patient has been admitted to the intensive care unit.
No new deaths of outbreaks related to COVID-19 were added on Friday.
The city’s coronavirus positivity rate stands at 1.6 per cent to end the week.
Friday’s update on the vaccine front shows that 79 per cent of all eligible Ottawans have now received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some 85 per cent of residents aged 12 and older have now gotten at least one dose, while roughly 150,000 eligible people in the city have yet to get an initial shot.