{"id":4545,"date":"2024-02-08T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2024-02-08T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:28:23","slug":"covid-19-cases-continue-downward-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-cases-continue-downward-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases continue downward trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 infections showed another drop in the last seven days, with Ottawa Public Health reporting 144 new cases as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with 177 new cases reported last week and 264 new cases the week before.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency reported five new deaths from COVID-19, compared with four a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitalizations also showed improvement, with OPH reporting Wednesday there were 72 confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital as of Tuesday night. There were 80 confirmed cases in last week\u2019s report. This week, 33 patients were admitted to hospital because of COVID-19, while the other 39 were admitted for other reasons. Two patients in the latter group are in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there were four new COVID-19 outbreaks in institutional settings, bringing the total number of current institutional outbreaks to 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 infections showed another drop in the last seven days, with Ottawa Public Health reporting 144 new cases as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That compares with 177 new cases reported last week and 264 new cases the week before.<\/p>\n<p>The health agency reported five new deaths from COVID-19, compared with four a week earlier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-cases-continue-downward-trend\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 cases continue downward trend<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,150,78,77,119,137,249,14,230],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-hospitalizations","tag-influenza","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}