RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:
The city’s COVID-19 numbers to watch are typically solid at moderate to very high degrees in this week’s Ottawa Public Health (OPH) updates.
Sometimes you have moderate respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity and sometimes a low point of influenza; Its effects on influenza wastewater are considered high.
OPH says the city’s fitness services remain the top risk for respiratory illnesses, as has been the case since September.
Experts suggest that people cover coughs and sneezes, wear masks, keep their hands and high-touch surfaces clean, stay home when sick, and stay up to date on COVID and flu vaccines to help themselves and the vulnerable.
COVID and flu vaccines are now available to the general public in Ontario.
Sewage
The research team’s data shows that, as of Oct. 26, the average coronavirus wastewater level has remained robust for about five weeks, with a recent buildup stabilizing.
OPH considers this number to be high, below the very high of the week.
hospitals
The average number of Ottawans in hospitals for COVID-19 over the past week is 45, with no patients in an intensive care unit.
A separate count, which includes patients who underwent COVID testing after being admitted for other reasons, who were admitted for lingering COVID complications, and were transferred from other fitness groups, is stable.
Last week’s new patients are still classified as moderate, according to OPH.
Testing, Outbreaks, Deaths, and Vaccines
The city’s average weekly positivity rate is about 17%, which is stable. OPH says that number is high.
OPH reports there are 35 active COVID outbreaks, up from 23 last week. Most outbreaks occur in nursing homes or hospitals, and the number of new outbreaks is very high.
The fitness unit reported 217 additional COVID cases in the past week and two additional COVID deaths, aged 90 and older.
The next monthly update from OPH on COVID vaccination is expected next week.
Spread
The Kingston Region Health Unit says its COVID trends are robust to moderate to very high degrees and that we are in an era of maximum transmission threat. Influenza indicators are low and RSV trends are low to moderate.
Your average coronavirus wastewater reading is considered high and solid. Other wastewater trends available outside of Ottawa are robust in Smiths Falls, Brockville, Hawkesbury and Cornwall.
The average COVID-19 positivity rate has decreased from 27 per cent to 17 per cent at the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) and remains at 14 per cent in the Kingston area.
Hospitalizations and deaths
The Kingston Region Health Unit says it has a whopping 26 active COVID-19 patients in its hospitals, in addition to living in some other fitness unit. The province reported the 126th overall COVID death in the region.
Hospitalizations in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark (LGL) counties dropped to 3 and EOHU dropped to seven.
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health (HPE), like Ottawa, provides a weekly average of hospitalizations. It goes from five to thirteen.
Western Quebec has a large number of hospitalized COVID patients.
Three EOHU citizens with COVID have died, for a total of 318. LGL reports its 169th death in total, the 26th this year.
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