But even though the viral levels are going down, a drop from a pandemic high isn't worth celebrating just yet. "The signal is still quite high and it's still at a level where we were not comfortable with," he said. UPDATE: The #COVID19 signal in #Ottawa's wastewater has held fairly steady for the past 2 weeks after the Easter spike. Until the number of cases drop down to low double-digits, people have to continue to be careful, especially as more contagious variants of concern spread, he said. "The very early indications are that we might actually have, you know, knock on wood, a half-decent summer here in Ottawa."

Source: CBC News April 24, 2021 08:00 UTC