RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:
The city’s COVID-19 numbers to watch are mostly stable at levels ranging from low to very high in this week’s Ottawa Public Health (OPH) updates.
The most recent figures show peak respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity, while flu trends are low.
This is a slight increase after several signs increased last week.
Experts recommend that people cover coughs and sneezes, wear masks, keep their hands and touching surfaces clean, stay home when sick, and stay up to date on vaccinations. COVID and flu to help protect yourself and other vulnerable people.
OPH says the city’s fitness services remain the top risk for respiratory illnesses, as has been the case since early September.
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Waste
The research team’s data shows that, as of November 15, the average wastewater level of the coronavirus has stabilized to the second peak in a month. OPH still considers this figure to be very high.
hospitals
Over the past week, the average number of Ottawans in hospitals for COVID-19 has been solid: 69, with 3 patients in an intensive care unit.
A separate count, which includes patients who were tested for COVID after being admitted for other reasons, who were admitted for lingering COVID complications, or who were transferred from other fitness units, rose again.
There were 11 new patients last week, up from 54 last week. OPH considers 11 to be a low number of new hospitalizations.
Testing, Outbreaks, and Deaths
The city’s average weekly positivity rate is about 17% and has remained stable. The OPH classifies this figure as high.
The 34 active COVID outbreaks are also holding steady. Almost all outbreaks occur in nursing homes or hospitals, and the number of new outbreaks is very high.
The fitness unit has reported 285 additional COVID cases over the past week and six additional COVID deaths. Five patients were eighty years old and one was seventy.
OPH’s next update on COVID vaccination will be in early December.
Spread & Vaccination
The Kingston area’s health unit says its COVID trends are stable at moderate to very high levels and it’s in a high-risk time for transmission. Flu indicators are low and RSV trends are moderate.
The region’s average coronavirus rate in wastewater is very high and increasing, while its average COVID-19 test positivity rate is moderate and strong at 15%.
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) says it’s in a high-risk time for COVID, with high wastewater readings and a very high test positivity rate of 29 per cent.
COVID tests in Renfrew County come back about 25% of the time.
Hastings Prince Edward (HPE) Public Health says 13 per cent of its residents have had a COVID vaccine in the last six months, up from 12 per cent last week.
Hospitalizations and deaths
The EOHU is seeing an increase of up to 27 COVID-related hospitalizations, which it considers very high.
The Kingston Region Health Unit says it has 21 active COVID-19 patients in its hospitals, in addition to living in some other fitness unit. This is rated as superior and stable.
HPE, like Ottawa, shows a weekly average of COVID hospitals: a slight drop to 16 in its weekly update, with around 4 patients in intensive care.
Renfrew County has 4 hospitalized COVID patients, two in intensive care.
Western Quebec is down to 72 hospitalized COVID patients. The province says there have been more COVID deaths, for a total of 521.
Renfrew County reported its eighth COVID death of 2023, which is its 90th overall. The health unit for Leeds, Grenville and Lanark (LGL) counties reported its 173rd COVID death.
HPE reported more deaths, adding “missing old deaths from January 15, 2020 through March 31, 2023. “
The region surpassed 350 COVID deaths in 2023 and the total number of reported victims was 2,500.
LGL data goes up to Nov. 12.
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