COVID-19 claims 1st victim in Ottawa in a month

Another person has died from COVID-19 in Ottawa, the first death for the month of July.

Tuesday'sdaily report from Ottawa Public Health(OPH) confirmed 25 new cases, in the city for a total of 2,468and the one additional death.

Of those total cases, 269 are active, 1,935 resolved and 264 people have died. The unidentified victim isthe first person to die of COVID-19 in the region since someone passed away in Ottawain late June.

Ten people are in hospital, two more than Monday, and one more in intensive care for a total offour.

Sixteen of the 25 new cases are people under age 30: five children under age 10, six people ages 10 to 19 and five people in their 20s.

Ottawa has averaged 23.5 new cases per day in the last 10 reports, with five straight in the 20s. On Monday, 28 new cases were reported, while 26 were confirmed the previous day.

These reports note when a health unit learns of and logs a case, not necessarily when the diagnosis or death happens.

Ottawa's daily report leads province

No other health unit in the province had more cases Tuesday than Ottawa's, which made up 22.5 per cent of Ontario's 111 newly confirmed cases punching above its six-to-seven per cent of the province's population.

Asked Tuesday if the province had criteria for rolling a region back to Stage 2 of the province's opening plan, Premier Doug Ford said there wasn't one and that he relies on local health units to keep him informed on what's needed.

• Ontario confirms 111 new COVID-19 cases, just 6 reported in Toronto and 7 in Peel

Quebec confirmed 169 new cases Tuesday, reporting two of them in western Quebec.

The Leeds, Grenville and LanarkDistrict Health Unit said that a probable case reported Friday ended up being negative, so the region is back to having no known active cases.