Quebec nears 600 daily COVID-19 cases for second time in the last week

Nov 4 2021, 3:35 pm

Nearly 600 new COVID-19 cases have been added to Quebec’s total coronavirus tally over the past 24 hours.

Quebec health officials have reported 588 new cases since Wednesday morning.

To date, the total number of people infected in Quebec has risen to 428,060.

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux has not confirmed any additional virus-related death since Wednesday.

Hospitalizations have decreased by seven, totalling 241 across the province. Patients in intensive care have decreased by seven since Tuesday, totalling 63.

Over the past day, 12,871 vaccine doses were administered, amounting to 13,285,370 since December 2020.

There have been 11,510 COVID-19-related deaths in Quebec since the pandemic began in March 2020.

The federal government recently announced a new standardized COVID-19 vaccine passport system that would apply to travellers in Quebec and the rest of the country.

The distribution of COVID-19 cases in Quebec by age group is as follows:

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

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Canada’s national COVID-19 death toll is now 29,095, along with 1,722,570 total cases.

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