Key COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area today

• Ottawa reports 50more cases of COVID-19 Friday.
• City has its first COVID-19 death in two months.
• Western Quebec reports 37 more cases.
• RenfrewCounty's case count increasesquicker.

Today's Ottawa update

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported 50 more COVID-19 cases Friday and its first COVID-19 death in two months, a man in his 50s.

Ottawa's Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Vera Etches,asked peopleto "approach September with caution"last week given the more infectious delta variant pushing the fourth pandemic wave.

Numbers to watch

14: As of Sept. 3, the risk of COVID-19 infection for unvaccinated people, or those who received their first dose less than two weeks ago, is 14times higher than the risk for fully vaccinated people.

1.06:The number of people infected by a single COVID-19 case, or R(t). Therate of spread is considered under control when the number is below one.

708: The number of COVID-19 tests at Ottawa's Brewer Arena on Wednesday. That test site is no longer doing pre-travel tests, citing increased demand.

3.5%:Ottawa's average COVID-19test positivity rate has more than doubled in two weeks.

27.4:The overall weekly incidence rate, arolling seven-day total of new COVID-19 cases expressed per 100,000 residents. It's nearly doubled in two weeks.

26: The number of known activecases of COVID-19 among people age 60 or older, out of a total of 318. That works out to about eight per cent of active cases for an age group representing more than 35 per cent of the population.

9: The number of active COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa: seven in child-care settings, one in a distribution workplace and one froma religious service or meeting. There were two outbreaks two weeks ago.

6:The number of Ottawa residents being treated for COVID-19 in an Ottawa hospital.

1: The number of those patients in an intensive care unit. Both have been stable all week.

801,625:The number of Ottawa residents who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Friday, about 2,200 more than Wednesday's update.

743,136:The number of Ottawa residents who are fully vaccinated, about 2,300 more than Wednesday.

87%:The percentage of Ottawa residents age 12 and up who've hadat least one vaccine dose.

81%:The percentage ofOttawa residents age 12 and up who are fully vaccinated.

Across the region

Quebec reports 37 more COVID-19 cases in the Outaouais in its Friday update. That area's four COVID-19 ICU patients aremore than the rest of eastern Ontario and western Quebec combined.

There are seven more cases reported Friday in the Belleville area, six of them unvaccinated people.

After reporting just 10 cases in August, Renfrew County's health unit has reported five cases in fourdays. It has one COVID-19 patient in hospital.

Quebec'svaccine passport for many non-essential public placesis now ineffect, with agrace period until Wednesday.

Ontario is introducing a vaccine passport starting Sept. 22as its science table lays out how it can help avoid an autumn lockdown.

The wider region saw a slight resurgencein doses given after last week's vaccine passport news.