Key COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area today

• Ottawa is reporting 281newCOVID-19 cases and two more deaths.
• The Outaouais is reporting 135 new COVID-19cases and one more death.
• Another person has died of COVID-19 in Renfrew County.

Today's Ottawa update

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting 281 newCOVID-19cases and twomoredeaths Thursday.OPH saysa third residentin their 40s has died of COVID-19.

Another 339cases are now considered resolved, leaving 3,179 known active cases in the city.

Active cases are one of the key indicators thatrose to record levels during this third waveof the pandemic. Some of those numbersare now beginning to decline.

Numbers to watch

178.3:The weekly incidence rate, therolling seven-day total of new COVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 residents, has dropped for the fifthstraight day.

0.94:The number of people infected by a single COVID-19 case, or R(t). Thespread of the coronavirusis considered under control if that figure is kept below one.

20:The number of active community outbreaks in Ottawa. There are 17 outbreaks in health-care settings and 15 in schools and child-care settings.

3,898:The number of COVID-19 cases since late December that are either confirmed orsuspected to involve a variant of concern.These variants have made up a significant portion of Ottawa's new COVID-19 cases since mid-March.

76.6%:The estimated proportion of the B117 variant detected in Ottawa's wastewater, according to the latest update.Variant detection comes with a wide margin of error.

Across the region

Public health officials inthe Outaouaisreported 135 newcases and one more deathThursday. The region is currently dealing with 86 COVID-19 outbreaks, and isunder Quebec'sstrictest measures until at least May 3.

The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit is reporting 11 more COVID-19 cases. Renfrew County's health unit is reporting its fifth COVID-19 death and eight new cases.

Ontario is undera provincewide stay-at-home orderuntil at leastMay 20.