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Key COVID-19 metrics are on the rise in Ottawa on Wednesday, with new outbreaks affecting a school and group home in the city as hospitalizations rise.

Ottawa Public Health reported 50 new COVID-19 cases in its latest report, doubling Tuesday’s figures and bringing the number of active cases in the city to 410.

No new deaths related to the virus were included in Wednesday’s report.

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There are now eight people in the hospital with COVID-19 in Ottawa, three of whom are in the intensive care unit, two more patients than the day before.

There are also two new outbreaks of COVID-19 in the city: A resident of a group home tested positive for the virus, while four cases were confirmed among students at the Michaëlle Jean public school in Nepean.

There are now two ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks declared in Ottawa schools and 11 outbreaks in total across the city.

However, the weekly coronavirus positivity rate dropped to 3.4 percent as of Wednesday, marking a slight decline from 3.6 percent in the prior period.

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