No COVID-19-related deaths reported in Quebec in 4 consecutive days

Quebec public health is reporting zero COVID-19-related deaths over the past four days.

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added 54 new cases over the past 24 hours and zero coronavirus-related deaths.

Hospitalizations have decreased by three since Monday and now total 85 across the province. Patients in intensive care have remained stable at 25, since the weekend.

Over the past day, 86,640 vaccines were administered across the province for a total of 9,555,986 since December 2020.

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There have now been 11,231 deaths in Quebec since the pandemic began, 375,969 confirmed cases, 3,814,722 negative cases, and 364,103 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 stay separated by only 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 26,438, along with 1,421,108 total cases.