COVID19 Institutional Outbreaks Ottawa
Summary of COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa healthcare, childcare and educational establishments.
Date created: Data effective February 2020. Uploaded to Open Data on September 22, 2020.
Update frequency: Daily
Accuracy: Points of consideration for interpretation of the data:
- Data are for confirmed outbreaks and the number of staff, living in Ottawa, and residents/patients/students with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 associated to each outbreak is provided. Please note, individuals may be linked to multiple outbreaks.
- All the outbreaks reflect the outbreak definitions at the time they were declared open:
- Healthcare Institutions: From April 1st 2020, 1 staff or resident case of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 is considered an outbreak in long-term care homes (LTCH), retirement homes (RH) and other healthcare institutions (e.g. group home, assisted living, group shelter) and declared facility wide. Starting May 10th 2020, 2 staff or patient cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 within a specified hospital unit within a 14-day period where both cases could have reasonably acquired their infection in hospital is considered an outbreak in a public hospital.
- Childcare & Education: Starting July 2020, 1 child or staff (or household member) case of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 is considered an outbreak in a childcare establishment. Starting August 26 2020, 2 student or staff (or visitor) cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 within a specified class within a 14-day period where at least one case could have reasonably acquired their infection at school (including transportation and before/after school care) is considered an outbreak in an educational establishment.
Attributes - Data fields:
- Facility Name – text
- Type of Facility - text
- Location in Facility – text
- Reported Date – date the COVID-19 outbreak was opened
- End Date - date the COVID-19 outbreak was closed
- Resident/Patient/Child/Student Cases – number of residents, patients, children, or students with confirmed COVID-19
- Resident/Patient/Child/Student Cases – number of residents, patients, children, or students with confirmed COVID-19 who died
- Staff Cases – number of staff with confirmed COVID-19
- Staff Deaths – number of staff with confirmed COVID-19 who died
- Total Cases – total number of people with confirmed COVID-19
- Total Deaths – total number of people with confirmed COVID-19 who died
Author: OPH Epidemiology Team
Author email: [email protected]
Maintainer Organization: Epidemiology & Evidence, Ottawa Public Health
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Additional Info
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| Last Updated | September 23, 2026, 07:13 (UTC) |
| Created | June 16, 2026, 17:26 (UTC) |
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Domain / Topic
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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COVID19 Institutional Outbreaks Ottawa |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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Summary of COVID-19 outbreaks in Ottawa healthcare, childcare and educational establishments. Date created: Data effective February 2020. Uploaded to Open Data on September 22, 2020.
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Author: OPH Epidemiology Team |
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
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Dataset Size
Dataset size in megabytes.
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752.0 |
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2026-05-13 |
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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public |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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Open Data | City of Ottawa |
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Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::covid19-institutional-outbreaks-ottawa |
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Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Ottawa |
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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[email protected] |
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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City of Ottawa |
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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2026-09-22 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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b86df5362a944d629cc1681f1032eed8 |
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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English |
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::covid19-institutional-outbreaks-ottawa |
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Globally Unique Identifier
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Contains data about individuals
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
Version of the datatset
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None |
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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None |
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Version notes
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Is version of another dataset
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Other versions
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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City of Ottawa |
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
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2691 |
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Number of data columns
If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
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21 |
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Number of data cells
If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
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56511 |
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