City confirms 123 new cases

ICU units at 81 per cent; 23 outbreaks at LTCs, homes

Ottawa Public Health on Sunday reported 123 more cases of COVID-19 in the city, bringing the total to 12,286 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

The health unit also reported one additional death. There have been 403 deaths in Ottawa attributed to the novel coronavirus. OPH said there were 38 COVID -19 patients in hospital, eight of them in intensive care units. No new hospital admissions were reported Sunday.

Eighty-one per cent of intensive-care beds and 96 per cent of acute-care beds were occupied Sunday.

There were 13 ongoing outbreaks in Ottawa long-term care homes and 10 in retirement homes, plus eight outbreaks in other unidentified health-care settings. There were no outbreaks in Ottawa hospitals. Five childcare centres had ongoing outbreaks.

The provincial Ministry of Health on Sunday reported 3,422 new cases of COVID -19 across the province. The ministry reported 69 new deaths. In total, 5,409 people in Ontario have died from COVID-19.

In its daily update on Sunday, the province reported 45 new cases in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit's region and six new cases in the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit region.

Of all the daily test results in Ontario reported by the province, 5.2 per cent were positive for COVID-19, up from 4.9 per cent the previous day.

As for areas of the province with the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 reported Sunday, the ministry said there were 1,035 in Toronto, 585 in Peel, 254 in Windsor-Essex, 246 in York Region and 186 in Niagara.

Quebec reported 50 new deaths, but just 1,744 new infections due to a data issue that omitted some new infections from the tally.