WEST CARLETON – In the latest Ottawa Public Health (OPH) ward snapshot, Ward 5 including West Carleton remains unchanged compared to the map released in August.

As students prepare to head back to school, new data shows West Carleton still has the lowest number of COVID-19 cases while Alta Vista, Beacon Hill-Cyrville and Gloucester-Southgate are the wards hardest hit by COVID-19 in Ottawa.

Ottawa Public Health says its Snapshot of COVID-19 across Ottawa Wards Report shows “COVID-19 is present in every single community within Ottawa.”

West Carleton’s rates, calculated on a basis of per 100,000 people, remains at 63 – the same number reported in August. That works out to roughly 18 cases in Ward 5.

Alta Vista continues to have the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in Ottawa, with 403 cases per 100,000 people.  Beacon Hill-Cyrville in Ottawa’s east-end has the second highest rate, at 360 cases per 100,000 people.

Gloucester-Southgate is third, at 333 cases per 100,000 people.

OPH says its map cannot be used to identify COVID-19 “hot spots” in Ottawa.

“Areas with lower or higher rates are not more or less safe from COVID-19,” OPH said.

OPH notes the data is based on where a case of COVID-19 lives, and does not necessarily reflect where the disease was contracted.

Ottawa wards rate of confirmed COVID-19 per 100,000 as of Aug. 31. (Data from Aug. 17 in parenthesis):

• Alta Vista: 403 cases per 100,000 (363 cases per 100,000)
• Beacon Hill-Cyrville 360 cases per 100,000 (314 cases per 100,000)
• Gloucester-Southgate: 333 cases per 100,000 (327 per 100,000)
• Bay: 289 cases per 100,000 (252 cases per 100,000)
• Innes: 236 cases per 100,000 (176 cases per 100,000)
• Rideau-Rockcliffe: 233 cases per 100,000 (219 cases per 100,000)
• River: 232 cases per 100,000 (244 cases per 100,000)
• Barrhaven: 229 cases per 100,000 (198 cases per 100,000)
• Rideau-Vanier: 218 cases per 100,000 (179 cases per 100,000)
• Cumberland: 193 cases per 100,000 (155 cases per 100,000)
• Gloucester-South Nepean: 187 cases per 100,000 (166 cases per 100,000)
• Rideau-Goulbourn: 182 cases per 100,000 (174 cases per 100,000)
• College: 181 cases per 100,000 (166 cases per 100,000)
• Knoxdale-Merivale: 176 cases per 100,000 (174 cases per 100,000)
• Somerset: 159 cases per 100,000 (156 cases per 100,000)
• Kichissippi: 145 cases per 100,000 (122 cases per 100,000)
• Orleans: 134 cases per 100,000 (111 cases per 100,000)
• Kanata North: 126 cases per 100,000 (113 cases per 100,000)
• Capital: 126 cases per 100,000 (111 cases per 100,000)
• Stittsville: 121 cases per 100,000 (121 cases per 100,000)
• Kanata South: 116 cases per 100,000 (101 cases per 100,000)
• Osgoode: 79 cases per 100,000 (75 cases per 100,000)
• West Carleton-March: 63 cases per 100,000 (63 cases per 100,000)