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Ottawa added three new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, raising the city’s total to 13.

They are among 32 new cases in Ontario listed Monday morning on the province’s tracking website. There were no new cases listed on the site’s afternoon update.

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No other information about the age, gender or method of transmission for the Ottawa cases was released.

Monday’s numbers bring Ontario’s total of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 177, although five of those are listed as resolved. Nearly 10,000 Ontario residents have been tested so far, and 8,464 of those tests have come back negative.

Ottawa’s first COVID-19 case, confirmed on March 11, was a man in his 40s who worked for Ciena at the company’s Kanata campus. The company confirmed Monday morning that a second Ciena employee is also ill with the novel coronavirus and the campus is now shut down until March 30.

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And get ready to do more of your own cooking: Mayor Jim Watson tweeted late Monday that “@ottawahealth has accepted the recommendation from the Province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health that all bars, theatres and entertainment venues should close temporarily, and that restaurants limit operations to take-out and delivery,” taking effect Tuesday.