No COVID-19-related deaths reported in Quebec over past 3 days

Quebec public health is reporting zero COVID-19-related deaths over the weekend.

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added 52 new cases over the past 24 hours and 69 and 78 cases on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Since the start of July, Quebec public health no longer posts the daily numbers on weekends or holidays.

Hospitalizations have decreased by eight since Friday and now total 88 across the province. Patients in intensive care have increased by three (now totalling 25) since Friday’s update.

Over the past day, 65,405 vaccines were administered across the province for a total of 9,467,386 since December 2020.

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There have now been 11,231 deaths in Quebec since the pandemic began, 375,915 confirmed cases, 3,796,897 negative cases, and 364,033 COVID-19 recoveries.

All of Quebec has been downgraded to the Green Zone, meaning no areas of the province are currently in Yellow, Orange, or Red Zones, according to the government’s colour-coded COVID-19 restriction alert map.

As of July 12, physical distancing guidelines between people in Quebec have been reduced from the oft-mentioned two metres.

People from different households need to only stay separated by one metre, both indoors and outdoors.

Retail stores across the province no longer need to enforce a maximum customer capacity.

According to the Quebec government, during activities where people are seated (such as a show), customers must sit one seat apart, except when eating in the dining room or common area.

The distribution of cases in Quebec by age group is as follows:

The distribution of provincial deaths per age group is as follows:

Canada’s COVID-19 death toll is now 26,436, along with 1,420,531 total cases.