Key COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area today

• Ottawa is reporting 141newCOVID-19 cases and two more deaths.
• More than one-third of Ottawaresidents have had at least one vaccine dose.
• The Outaouais is reporting 59 more COVID-19 cases.
• A resident of the Belleville area has died of COVID-19.

Today's Ottawa update

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is reporting 141 newCOVID-19cases Wednesday and two more deaths.

Many key indicators thatrose to record levels during this third waveof the pandemicare now in decline.

City officials have a news conference at 2 p.m. ET.

Numbers to watch

102.9:The weekly incidence rate, arolling seven-day total of new COVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 residents.

0.96: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.

6.7%: The rate of COVID-19 tests coming back positive drops.

353,515:The number of Ottawa residents who have received their first vaccine dose, an increase of about 13,000 since Monday.

34%:The percentage of Ottawa residents who have received at least onevaccine dose.

50%:The percentage of Ottawa residents in their 50s who have received at least onevaccine dose

27,710:The number of Ottawa residents who have received their secondvaccine dose, about three per cent of the city's population.

Across the region

Public health officials inthe Outaouaisare reporting 59 newCOVID-19 cases Wednesday. The region is under Quebec'sstrictest measures, which start to loosen on Monday.

Hastings Prince Edward Public Health is reporting its tenth COVID-19 death. It has 11 new cases Wednesday and an outbreak at the Belleville hospital is now at 16 cases, the largestoutbreak in the area so far.

The Eastern Ontario Health Unit reports 21 more cases and the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit reports 14 more cases.

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