Six more COVID-19 patients in Ottawa hospitals Wednesday
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Ottawa Public Health is reporting six more people in the hospital with COVID-19 and no new deaths on Wednesday.
The new figures bring Ottawa's total number of hospitalizations to 32, with four people in intensive care. There have been 625 confirmed COVID-19 related deaths in Ottawa since the pandemic began.
Medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches says OPH is following the curve of hospitalizations as an indicator of the level of COVID-19 in the city because COVID-19 testing is limited to only certain populations.
"If the amount of COVID is continuing to grow, we'd see the hospitalizations growing, and then when it falls, we could have some confidence that the amount of COVID in our community is decreasing," Etches said Tuesday.
With that caveat in mind, OPH is reporting 515 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, slightly higher than the 446 reported on Tuesday. Ottawa's seven-day average is 866.4, up from 652.9 one week ago and up from 60.9 four weeks ago.
