COVID-19 trends high and stable in and around Ottawa – CBC
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Oct 12, 2023
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The city’s COVID-19 numbers to watch are generally stable at levels ranging from moderate to very high in this week’s Ottawa Public Health (OPH) updates.
It has a moderate amount of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity and a low level of flu.
Because of this, OPH again says the city’s health-care institutions remain at a high risk from respiratory illnesses, like they would be in December, January and February.
OPH is expecting the 2023-2024 respiratory virus season to be similar to its last, when COVID-19, flu and RSV surged at the same time to press health-care staff and the health system to the point the Red Cross had to help.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/covid19-ottawa-levels-spread-risk-october-2023-1.6987460
