Key COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area today

• Ottawa's COVID trends are steady ahead of Ontario's major changes.
• More than half of its weekend vaccinations were third doses to youth.
• Renfrew County reports same number of COVID deaths in February as2020-21 combined.

Today's Ottawa update

There are 16Ottawa residentsin local hospitals being treated forCOVID-19, according to Monday's update from Ottawa Public Health (OPH).

One patient is in an ICU. Both numbers have been stable ahead of Ontario removingits capacity and gathering limits and proof-of-vaccination requirements on Tuesday.

The numbersdonot includepeople who came to the hospital for other reasons and then test positive for COVID-19. They also don't cover people with lingering COVID-19problems, or patients transferredfrom other health units.

OPH shares those numbers a few times per week. They have been stable.

Theaveragelevelof coronavirus in Ottawa's wastewateris ina very slow decline. It's roughly two-and-a-half timeshigher than it was before the Omicron variant wave.

As Omicronoverwhelms and limits testing, the actual number of cases in Ottawaishigherthan the confirmed case count and some familiar numbers are affected.

The averagetest positivity rate for those who received PCR tests outside long-term care homes isaround 11per cent and the averagerate in those homes is around fiveper cent. These have been stable.

On Monday,OPH reported 66 moreCOVID-19 cases and no additionaldeaths

The rolling seven-day averageof newly confirmedCOVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 residents is around 85.

Vaccines

913,108:The number ofOttawa residents age five and upwith at least one dose of theCOVID-19 vaccine, about 150 more than on Friday. That's92per cent of the eligible population.

872,274:The number ofOttawa residents age five and upwith a seconddose, about 750 more than Friday.Eighty-eight per centof the eligible population now has at least two doses.

37,555:The number of children in Ottawa age five to 11 who have received their seconddose, about 500 more than Friday and 48per cent ofthat age group. First dose progress has stalled around70 per cent.

536,404:The number of Ottawans age 18 and upwith a third dose, about 850 more than Friday.That covers 63per cent of adults.Eligibility wasextremelylimited for childrenuntilthe Feb. 18 expansionforages 12 to 17.

8,699:The number of Ottawans age 12 to 17 with a third dose, almost 2,100doses since Friday. That's 16 per cent of this age group and more than half of the vaccine doses to residents in the last three days.

Across the region

Outside of Ottawa, the wider region has about 55COVID-19 hospitalizations and 15of these patients requireintensive care. These numbers have been slowly dropping.

Those numbersdon't include Hastings Prince EdwardPublic Health. It reported 25 local COVID hospitalizations Monday, up from 19 Friday and generally stable over the last 10 days.

On Monday, Renfrew County reported its 13th COVID-19 death in February, meaning it has reported as many of these deaths this month as in 2020 and 2021 combined.

Two more deaths were reported Monday by officials in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties. Its hospitalizations are stable.

Wastewater levels aredropping or stableat sites in the Kingston area. Data from other local sites is more than a week old.