📈 The COVID-19 wastewater viral signal for Ottawa has increased substantially (+1,684%) since a low on July 12, 2023.
⚠️ The 7-day average of percent positivity is extremely high (17.23%).
🏥 Confirmed COVID-19 patients in Ottawa hospitals: 203 ( increase of 25).
Since January 1, 2023, there have been 105 COVID-19 outbreaks at Ottawa’s hospitals, leading to 15 deaths and 865 known cases of COVID-19.
Comments closedCOVID-19 has killed at least four more New Brunswickers aged 65 or older, and a child under four is among those hospitalized for or with the virus between Nov. 5 and Nov. 11, figures released by the province Tuesday show.
Comments closedNew data suggests that COVID-19 activity in British Columbia is trending downward, while influenza and RSV are on the rise.
Comments closedThe number of people with COVID-19 in B.C. hospitals rose this week, while other data released Thursday by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control was a mixed bag.
There were 263 test-positive COVID patients in provincial hospitals Thursday, up from 244 last week, an increase of 7.7 per cent.
Comments closed📈 The COVID-19 wastewater viral signal for Ottawa has increased substantially (+1,246%) since a low on July 12, 2023.
⚠️ The 7-day average of percent positivity is extremely high (18.74%).
🏥 Confirmed COVID-19 patients in Ottawa hospitals: 178 ( increase of 65).
Since September 1, 2023, there have been 37 COVID-19 outbreaks at Ottawa’s hospitals, leading to three recent deaths and 314 known cases of COVID-19.
Comments closedOttawa Public Health on Wednesday reported three more deaths due to COVID-19, as well as 207 new cases over the seven days ending Monday.
The new data collected Tuesday brings the total number of deaths to 1,136, while 94,917 cases of COVID-19 have been registered since the pandemic began.
Comments closedCompared to the 3 years prior to the pandemic, children with medically complex conditions and otherwise healthy children saw decreases in severe non-COVID respiratory illnesses in 2020 and 2021, the authors of a study yesterday note in JAMA Network Open.
The cross-sectional study, based on 139,078 respiratory hospitalizations in Canada, shows that the mitigation efforts used during the first several months of COVID-19 likely prevented serious outcomes from respiratory illness complications, including hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and death.
Comments closedA new report from Statistics Canada has found that more women died of COVID-19 than men did during the earliest months of the pandemic.
Comments closedAt least two more New Brunswickers have died from COVID-19, including one aged 20 to 44, while a child under four is among the 52 people hospitalized for or with the virus, the latest weekly figures released by the province Wednesday show.
Comments closedInfectious disease researcher, Tara Moriarty, has an update on Covid activity in New Brunswick and beyond, and its implications this time of year.
Comments closedThere are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, concentrating or making decisions — than at any time in the last 15 years, data from the Census Bureau shows.
The increase started with the pandemic: The number of working-age adults reporting “serious difficulty” thinking has climbed by an estimated one million people.
Comments closedThe COVID-19 wastewater viral signal for Ottawa has increased substantially (+1491%) since a low on July 12, 2023.
Comments closedNew Brunswick reported three more deaths from COVID‑19 in its weekly update Tuesday, while hospitalizations, outbreaks and new cases all remained about the same.
Comments closedA woman in her 90s and a woman in her 70s have died of COVID-19, the regional public health unit revealed Friday in a weekly report.
Comments closedAfter two straight weeks at a moderate level, Peterborough Public Health raised the community risk index for COVID-19 for the region to a high level on Wednesday afternoon.
Comments closedNew Brunswick’s COVID-19 hazard index has more than doubled in a week and is now the highest in the country, according to an infectious diseases researcher and co-founder of COVID-19 Resources Canada.
Comments closedNova Scotia reports two more COVID-19 deaths, bringing the total to nine since the end of August.
Comments closedDoctors and nurses are warning that Alberta’s health system is already under strain as COVID-19 hospitalizations surge and the respiratory virus season has yet to kick into high gear.
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