Key COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area today

• Ottawa is reporting 74 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday and one death.
• The capital's largest shelter outbreak is over.
• That city has met a key vaccine target in retirement homes.
• There are sevenmore cases in Lanark County.

Today's Ottawa update

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) recorded 74 new cases ofCOVID-19 on Friday and one death.

Another 33 cases are considered resolved.

The city isnow inthe red zone on the province's pandemicframework. OPH says the spread of COVID-19 is getting out of control.

Numbers to watch

50:The weekly incidence rate, a rolling seven-day total of new COVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 residents, has risen sevenstraight days. The red-zone threshold is 40.

1.03:The number of people infected by a single COVID-19 case, or R(t). It's been around one since early February, below the red-zone threshold of 1.2.

2.9%:The percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positiveslightly rises. The red-zone threshold is2.5 per cent.

203:The number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus variant cases in Ottawa, according to the province.

131:The number of COVID-19 cases linked to Ottawa's largest shelter outbreak, which has been declared over. Shelter staff and clients have been offered vaccines for about two weeks.

87,737: The number of vaccine doses administered in Ottawa as of Friday.

80.8%:The percentage of retirement home residents whohave had both vaccine doses has now passed theOPHtarget of75 per cent.

Across the region

The Leeds,Grenville& Lanark District Health Unit, which is in yellow, recorded eightmore COVID-19 cases Friday, seven in Lanark County. It's had 86 cases in the last week.

Meanwhile, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit reported another 26 cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with health officials in the Kingstonarea recordinganother 12.

Renfrew County's health unit, also in yellow, reported two more cases.

In western Quebec, 53 cases and two more deaths were logged.