- Ottawa’s pandemic trends are “going in the right direction,” OPH said.
- Hastings Prince Edward Public Health sent a similar message.
Today’s update in Ottawa
Ottawa’s public health tweeted Thursday morning that pandemic trends in the city are going in the right direction. He believes that the current average for wastewater is moderate, and hospitalizations, outbreaks and positive tests are low.
PHOTO of COVID-19 – JUNE 2, 2022
Our monitoring indicators continue to move in the right direction. This is really encouraging, but it does not mean that the pandemic is over. We cannot miss our progress.
Check out this week’s video & tweets below for more information. (1/4) pic.twitter.com/cgO1mbId7Y
– @OttawaHealth
Wastewater
The level of coronavirus found in Ottawa’s wastewater has been declining very slowly for about two weeks.
The latest available data (the thick red line in the chart below) shows that the seven-day average, calculated on May 29, remained about twice as high as in early March, before the current jump.
That’s about five times higher than in late fall before the Omicron appeared.
Hospitals
Fifteen Ottawa residents are in local hospitals treating COVID-19, according to an OPH update on Friday. This number usually varies between 10 and 20 for nearly three weeks.
One patient is in intensive care.
The hospitalization figures above do not include all patients. For example, they omit patients admitted for other reasons who then test positive for COVID-19, those admitted for long-term complications of COVID-19, and those transferred from other health care units.
When these categories are included, there were 52 patients on Friday, a slight decline from 57 patients in the previous update.
Record (OPH)
Outbreaks and cases
Testing strategies have changed with the infectious version of Omicron, which means that many cases of COVID-19 are not reflected in the current issue. Public health monitors and reports only outbreaks that occur in health facilities.
Ottawa has 20 active COVID outbreaks on Thursday. That number is slowly declining, but has not changed since Thursday.
On Friday, OPH reported another 55 cases, but no new deaths.
The moving weekly frequency of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 inhabitants is about 29.
Tests and vaccines
At about eight percent, the average positive rate in Ottawa for those who received PCR tests outside of long-term care homes is stable. The average value in homes is seven percent, an increase from Monday.
As of Friday’s weekly update, 92% of Ottawa residents aged five and older have at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 89% of those eligible residents have two.
The percentage of residents aged 12 and over with the third dose was 63 percent, while 10 percent of this age group had four.
Throughout the region
Wastewater levels in the Kingston area and Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties (LGL) are generally stable or declining.
An exception is the recent rise in the Kemptville area, which increased at the end of May. The jump returns to its average value to the levels last observed about a month ago.
West Quebec has about 55 hospitalizations at COVID. One patient needs intensive treatment.
Communities in eastern Ontario outside Ottawa have reported 19 hospitalizations with COVID-19, which are slowly declining. About four are in intensive care, which is a stable number.
None of these numbers in eastern Ontario include Prince Edward Hastings’ (HPE) Public Health, which, like western Quebec, has a different method of counting.
HPE hospitalization drops to 11; the last time it was so low was in late March. His medical official says pandemic trends are moving in the right direction.
Vaccines
More than 5.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been given to people in the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
Quebec estimates that about 78% of Outaouais residents are “adequately vaccinated,” which may be a combination of vaccination and a recent infection.
For each health unit in eastern Ontario, there are somewhere between 81 and 92 percent of eligible residents with at least two doses of vaccine and somewhere between 59 and 71 percent of adults with three doses.
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