Quebecers will learn Tuesday how the province s reopening will look. The best clues have come from Saskatchewan s plan, which Quebec s leaders wanted to emulate if the province can reach vaccination benchmarks.
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Quebec has recorded 838 new cases of COVID-19, the provincial government announced this morning.
In addition, eight new deaths were reported, including two over the previous 24 hours.
The other deaths occurred between May 7 and 12.
Some other key statistics from Quebec’s latest COVID-19 update, published this morning:
Montreal Island: 238 new cases, 2 deaths.
10 more people are in hospital. Total hospitalizations: 530.
2 more people are in intensive care. Total in ICU: 123.
110,119 additional vaccine doses were administered.
36,776 tests were conducted on Wednesday, the last day for which screening data is available.
Positivity rate: 2.2 per cent.
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Active cases drop below 8,000 in Quebec 11 May 2021 at 18 h 25 min Reading time: 2 min 30 s
By Gordon Lambie
Although the areas will remain under special emergency measures to help control the spread of COVID-19, Premier Francois Legault announced on Tuesday afternoon that high schools in the Beauce and Granit sectors will be reopening. While emphasizing that people in those hard-hit areas need to “be more careful,” the premier spoke with pride about reopening the schools, and the degree to which schools in the province have remained open in general during the pandemic.
Legault said that the situation in certain parts of the Bas Saint Laurent, Chaudiere Appalaches, and Estrie regions all remain areas of concern, although he added that as of next Monday the Outaouais region will be downgraded from the emergency measures and that several regions closer to Montreal may be moving to orange shortly.