The City of Ottawa, where I live, published a daily digest of “detailed” data up to April 29. They broke down all cases to date by where the exposure came from.
As of April 21, there were 179 cases of exposure with “no travel and no exposure to a known case.” As of April 28, there were 183.
So, in that seven-day period, there were FOUR new cases with no travel/contact, out of 354 new cases total.
In other words, a maximum 4 people were infected from surfaces, grocery stores, bike paths, making deliveries, etc. As far as I can tell, that might even include working in a grocery store. That’s less than 2 percent of new cases, or four cases out of a population close to one million.
That seems like great news, but nobody has commented on it.
Regarding where the new cases are coming from:
The City of Ottawa, where I live, published a daily digest of “detailed” data up to April 29. They broke down all cases to date by where the exposure came from.
As of April 21, there were 179 cases of exposure with “no travel and no exposure to a known case.” As of April 28, there were 183.
So, in that seven-day period, there were FOUR new cases with no travel/contact, out of 354 new cases total.
In other words, a maximum 4 people were infected from surfaces, grocery stores, bike paths, making deliveries, etc. As far as I can tell, that might even include working in a grocery store. That’s less than 2 percent of new cases, or four cases out of a population close to one million.
That seems like great news, but nobody has commented on it.
Source: Table 4 of the digest. April 22 pdf is here: https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/reports-research-and-statistics/resources/Documents/covid-19/22-Apr/Web-PDF-COVID-2019-epi-update_20200422wOutbreakEB-MA9MA.pdf
April 29 pdf is here: https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/reports-research-and-statistics/resources/Documents/covid-19/29-Apr/Web-PDF-COVID-2019-epi-update_20200429-46y8.pdf