The number is slightly below the 2,554 seven-day daily increase average. The new cases bring the province s total number of positive cases to 220,518. The province added that 186,996 people have recovered from the disease. The Quebec Institute of Public Health is reporting that there are 24,955 active cases of novel coronavirus in the province. Of the active 1,378 outbreaks in the province, Quebec reports 674 are active in the work environment, 463 at living and care environments and 116 in the educational system. The province also reported 74 new deaths due to COVID-19 including 16 in the past 24 hours, 41 between Dec. 31 and Jan. 5, 15 before Dec. 31, and two at an unknown date.
MONTREAL On the final day of 2020, Quebec confirmed COVID-19 cases shot past 200,000, as the province reported a record single-day increase of 2,819 people testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours. With the new cases, Quebec has reported 202,641 positive novel coronavirus tests since the start of the pandemic in March. In addition, 62 more people are reported to have died due to the disease including 22 deaths in the past 24 hours, 29 deaths between Dec. 24 and Dec. 29, seven deaths before Dec. 24, and four deaths that occurred at an unknown date. One death was removed from the total number as it was found to be not attributable to COVID-19.
MONTREAL As the province prepares for another lockdown, Quebec reported Thursday that 2,349 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the province, a new daily record that brings the total number of positive cases to 185,872 since the start of the pandemic. It is the fifth time the daily record has been broken in six days. The Quebec Institute of Public Health reports that there are 19,758 active novel coronavirus cases, and that 1,926 more people have recovered from the disease bringing that total to 158,201. In addition, the province added 46 deaths due to the disease including 13 in the past 24 hours, 29 between Dec. 17 and Dec. 22, and two occurred before Dec. 17 and two were reported at an unknown date.
MONTREAL Health-care workers in many Quebec hospitals say the situation is on the brink of collapse, as nurses, doctors and support staff work overtime to fight the second wave of COVID-19 and the drastically high daily increases in cases. Saturday, the province reported the highest single-day jump in novel coronavirus cases with 2,038 bringing the province s total number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 174,839. The Quebec Institute of Public Health says there are 17,879 active cases including 1,005 hospitalizations. Health-care workers say there aren t enough workers. Nurses, doctors and support staff have been working extended hours with little or no vacations for more than nine months and experts fear the worst of COVID-19 s second wave hasn t even come yet.
The seven-day average for new infections is now 1,791 per day. Of those, 142,894 people have recovered from the disease, 1,549 more than on Monday. The Quebec Institute of Public Health reported that there are 16,811 active cases in the province. Quebec also reported 39 new deaths. Seven people are reported to have died in the past 24 hours, 30 between Dec. 8 and Dec. 13 and two at an unknown date. The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the province is now 7,571. There were 24,200 tests done Dec. 13 (testing numbers are reported two days later). And, in a brand-new statistic, 298 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered yesterday, the first day of Quebec s vaccination campaign.