OTTAWA -- The City of Ottawa is seeing a sixth straight day of double-digit increases in the number of COVID-19 cases in the city.
Ottawa Public Health reports 14 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Thursday, along with zero new deaths.
The 14 new cases comes after Ottawa saw 44 new cases on Tuesday, followed by 33 new cases on Wednesday. It's been a week with a steady increase in COVID-19 cases in Ottawa: 20 new cases were reported on Monday, 16 new cases on Sunday and 19 new cases last Saturday.
Since the first case of COVID-19 on March 11, there have been 2,334 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 263 deaths.
Nine people are currently in hospital with COVID-19 related illnesses, including three in the intensive care unit.
Active COVID-19 cases in Ottawa
Ottawa Public Health reports 193 active cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa
The daily report shows 1,878 people have recovered after testing positive for COVID-19. That's 80.5 per cent of all COVID-19 cases in Ottawa.
Age breakdown of new COVID-19 cases
The 14 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday range in age from 10 to 59 years old.
Here is a breakdown of the ages of the new cases:
- 0-9 years: 0 new cases
- 10-19 years: 3 new cases
- 20-29 years: 2 new cases
- 30-39 years: 2 new cases
- 40-49 years: 5 new cases
- 50-59 years: 2 new cases
- 60-69 years: 0 new cases
- 70-79 years: 0 new cases
- 80-89 years: 0 new case
- 90+: 0 new cases
COVID-19 breakdown
A total of 167 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ottawa over the past eight days.
Here is a look at the breakdown:
- July 16-23: 167 cases
- July 1-23: 240 cases
- June 1-30: 132 cases