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A snapshot of COVID-19 in eastern Ontario

Here's what we know about the more than 20 people in eastern Ontario who have tested positive for the coronavirus.

There are 27 confirmed COVID-19 cases in region, with 9 quarantined in Trenton, Ont.

Among the positive cases in eastern Ontario, 13 are in Ottawa, nine are in Trenton, three are in Kingston and one person is in Prescott-Russell. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Here's what we know about the more than 20 people in eastern Ontario who have tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness.

In Ottawa, there are 14confirmed cases ofCOVID-19, including one person who has required hospitalization.

CBC has confirmed three of the 14are coworkers at Ciena, a communications technology company with an office in Kanata.

ACity of Ottawa employee who works at 100 Constellation Dr. has also come down with COVID-19, as well asSophie Grgoire Trudeau.

All 14patients are recent travellers, according to the Ministry of Health.

Cases elsewhere

Elsewhere in eastern Ontario, there are now three travel-related cases in the Kingston, Ont., area.

Two women and a man who recently returned to the area were confirmed Tuesday to have tested positive for COVID-19.

Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health said in a news releasethey had travelled to the U.K., Spain and Barbados.

Two weretested at Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital, while the third was tested at a different hospital. All are in self-isolation at home, said KFL&A medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore in the release.

A woman in her 30s tested positive at the Glengarry Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, Ont., over the weekend.

According to the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, the woman is from Prescott-Russell, Ont.,and began showing symptoms two days after returning from New York Cityon March 9.

Her symptoms include a mild cough and generalized aches and pain, the health unit said in a press release.

Cruise ship quarantine

There have also been nineCOVID-19 cases in the Trenton, Ont., quarantine for returning cruise ship passengers.

Kingston and the Islands MP Mark Gerretsen said his mother was on the ship and has tested positive.

The Trenton-area public health authority says there's no risk to the public since none of the people have left quarantine.

As of Wednesday afternoonin Ontario, 212people have tested positive with COVID-19. Among them, five have recovered and one person, a 77-year-old man, has died.