Using data as of March 24, sewage levels were five times higher than two weeks ago. Thursday also had one of the highest daily recordings ever recorded. the eighth-highest to be specific. These files do not include the first wave. Researchers measuring the levels of the new coronavirus in Ottawa’s sewage system have found that they are rising 12 of the last 14 days, based on data until March 24. (613covid.ca)
Ten Ottawa residents are being treated in local hospitals for COVID-19, according to OPH on Monday, with no one in the ICU. These numbers are stable this month. Hospital numbers do not include people who came to the hospital for other reasons and then tested positive for COVID-19. They also do not cover people with long-term COVID-19 problems or patients transferred from other health facilities. OPH distributes these numbers several times a week. Increased in the last update after several days of stability. Ottawa Public Health has a number of COVID-19 hospitals showing all of the hospital patients who tested positive for COVID, including those admitted for other reasons and living in other areas. There were 43 since March 26, returning to the 1940s for the first time in three weeks. (Ottawa Public Health)
Test strategies have changed based on the Omicron transmission variant, which means that many people with COVID-19 are not reflected in the number of cases. Officials said they expect the numbers to rise as the rules loosen. What matters is whether the increases become worrying. On Monday, OPH reported 325 more COVID-19 cases in the last three days and two more deaths. One victim was in his 80s and the other 90 years and older. The rolling weekly incidence rate of the newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, expressed per 100,000 inhabitants, is about 70. The health unit also reported 21 healthcare cases on Monday, which are on the rise. The provincial testing strategy for 2022 means that it does not monitor other types of outbreaks. The average positivity rate for those who underwent PCR testing outside of long-term care is stable at around 17%. The average positivity in homes is stable at around 1 percent.

Weekly vaccine update

914,500: The number of Ottawa residents aged five and over with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 637 more than in last Monday’s weekly update. This is still 92 percent of the eligible population. 876,951: The number of Ottawa residents aged five and over with a second installment of 894 in the last week. Eighty-eight percent of the eligible population has at least two doses. 560,671: The number of Ottawa residents aged 12 and over with a third installment, 2,511 more in the last week. This is up to 62 percent of these residents. Younger children are eligible for third installments only if they have certain conditions.

Throughout the area

Communities outside Ottawa receive approximately 45 COVID-19 hospitalizations, 10 of which require intensive care. None of these figures include the Public Health of Hastings Prince Edward, who reported a jump in local hospitalizations from 10 to 16 over the weekend. It was about the first week of March. The counties of Leeds, Grenville and Lanark (LGL) reported the fifth death from COVID-19 last week, as well as 17 local treatments from COVID-19, which still leads the area. Sewage trends are constant throughout the LGL. They differ in the Kingston area, where two of the three locations report levels approaching the top of the Omicron wave.