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when residents are at or near the end of the 112-day period, health boards are instructed to vaccinate people as soon as possible a phrase that is underlined and in bold in the document signed by public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda.
Dr. Sophie Zhang, who oversees 15 long-term care centres in Montreal, said the new directive will help provide maximum protection for patients who remain vulnerable despite having received one dose.
“I am pleased to see that the government has been swift in responding to our request that the second dose be given immediately to long-term care residents,” she said in an email. Ideally, people would receive the same vaccine for both shots, but with supply shortages and “the fact that most vaccine experts are fairly confident a mixed-dose regime will be safe and effective, I think this is the right thing to do,” she added.
MONTREAL Quebec administered a record number of vaccine doses in a 24-hour period Wednesday, as the province added 1,248 new positive COVID-19 cases. VACCINATION CAMPAIGN Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube praised the success of the province s vaccination campaign on Thursday reporting on Twitter that Wednesday was another record-breaking day, with some 85,000 doses of vaccine administered. About 30,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses were administered, and Dube said that more than 100,000 people have made appointments to get the AstraZeneca vaccine over the next seven days. A graph posted on Twitter by the minister shows a steady growth in the number of doses administered daily since the start of the vaccination campaign.
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The province reported 1,248 new COVID-19 cases and seven deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus Thursday, including two in the past 24 hours. Health officials said hospitalizations dropped by five, to 711, and 174 people were in intensive care, a drop of four. Quebec has 12,124 active reported cases.
Quebec set a daily record for COVID-19 vaccinations, with 85,772 doses administered on Wednesday. Health Minister Christian Dube said in a tweet that number includes more than 30,000 Oxford-AstraZeneca doses.
On Wednesday, Quebecers 45 and older officially became eligible to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. Dube said 103,000 people have scheduled an appointment to get an AstraZeneca dose in the coming week.
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