Quebec reports no COVID-19-related deaths for fifth consecutive day

Quebec public health has not reported a COVID-19-related death over the past five days.

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has added zero new virus-related deaths every day this week. The last COVID-related death was added on July 9.

Over the past day, 75 new cases have been added to the provincial total.

Hospitalizations have decreased by six since Tuesday and now total 79 across the province. Patients in intensive care have remained stable at 25 since the weekend.

Over the past day, 92,825 vaccines were administered across the province for a total of 9,648,811 since December 2020.

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There have now been 11,231 deaths in Quebec since the pandemic began, 376,044 confirmed cases, 3,820,423 negative cases, and 364,155 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 26,450, along with 1,421,447 total cases.