Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says recent news that shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to Canada would be temporarily cut in half is a setback, but he's still hopeful life in the city can return to a semblance of normality by the summer.
Speaking on Newstalk 580 CFRA's "Ottawa at Work with Leslie Roberts", Dr. Paul Roumeliotis said the EOHU is at the upper end of the "Orange-Restrict" limits.
Canada Post says it is adjusting its deadlines to have parcels shipped in time for Christmas as it deals with an unprecedented surge in demand this season.
More parts of the Outaouais region of Quebec, just north of Ottawa, will be moving to the maximum alert level under Quebec's COVID-19 framework this week.