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Ottawa has been moved into the red, the most severe classification on a four-colour scale used by public health officials to determine the severity of COVID-19 in the community, including the risk of overburdening the local health-care system.
The city was officially declared a red zone Friday, following Ontario's announcement that Ottawa was being rolled back into a modified Stage 2, closing dine-in bars and restaurants, movie theatres, performing arts venues, gyms and casinos for at least the next four weeks.
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The decision to reclassify the city from orange to red was based on a rapid increase in new cases, hospitalizations and outbreaks, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) wrote in a statement.