RECENT DEVELOPMENTS:
The COVID-19 numbers to watch out for in the city are strong and headline this week’s Ottawa Public Health (OPH) updates. It now also has moderate respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity.
For this reason, OPH reiterates that the city’s fitness services continue to be at higher risk for respiratory illnesses, as they would be in December, January, and February.
OPH expects the 2023-2024 respiratory virus season to be its last, when COVID-19, flu and RSV caused a strong wave at the same time to put a strain on physical care staff and the physical care formula to the point that Red Cross had to help.
Experts suggest that people wear masks, keep their hands clean, gather in well-ventilated and less crowded spaces, stay home when sick, and stay up to date on COVID and flu vaccines to help themselves and the vulnerable.
COVID-19 and flu vaccines are expected to be available to the public in Ottawa through the end of October, and faster for those at higher risk for serious health problems.
Sewage
Data from the research team shows that, as of Sept. 25, the coronavirus wastewater midpoint has been emerging for two and a half months, with the recent expansion being more erratic.
OPH now considers this to be very high, compared to last week.
hospitals
The average number of Ottawans in hospitals for COVID-19 over the past week is solid: 36, with no patients in an intensive care unit.
A separate count that includes patients who underwent COVID testing after being admitted for other reasons, who were admitted for lingering COVID complications, and who were transferred from other fitness units, remains stable.
Its 34 new patients over the past week are moderate, for OPH.
Testing, Outbreaks, Deaths, and Vaccines
The average positivity rate of the city’s weekly checks is about 14 percent, its lowest point in a month. OPH says this is a top-to-top drop.
OPH reports that there are 24 active COVID outbreaks, one mild level and one moderate level, most in nursing homes.
The fitness unit reported 167 additional COVID cases over the past week and three additional COVID deaths, all of them 70 and older.
The next update on DPO vaccination will be 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.
Its average coronavirus wastewater reading is considered to be moderate and on the decline. Other wastewater trends that have been seen outside of Ottawa are at least a week old: they’re expanding in Hawkesbury and Brockville and they’re solid in Cornwall and Smiths Falls.
The average COVID-19 test positivity is 16 per cent in Renfrew County, solid at 15 per cent in the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU) and thirteen per cent in the Kingston region.
Hospitalizations and deaths
The Kingston Region Health Unit says it has a very high and developing number of 30 active COVID patients in its hospitals, in addition to living in some other fitness unit.
Hospitalizations at the EOHU increased from 7 a. m. on Tuesday to 3 p. m. on Tuesday.
Other Eastern Ontario gyms around Ottawa (Renfrew County and Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties) report that six citizens combined went to the hospital for COVID treatment.
Western Quebec goes from 16 to 27 hospitalized COVID patients and reports 3 more COVID deaths for a total of 495.
The EOHU has reported its 311th death in total due to COVID.
COVID updates from the Hastings Prince Edward Public Health Unit (HPE) are not anticipating a CUPE strike.
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