Quebec is reporting 17 more COVID-19 Hospital deaths and 15-in-patients surged today, a day after health officials formally declared the province a seventh wave of COVID-19.
The health department says 1,549 people have been hospitalized with the disease since 186 patients were admitted and 171 were discharged.
There are 41 people listed in intensive care, a decline of two patients.
Officials report 1,597 new cases through limited PCR testing, and more than 7,300 Health Network workers are off work because of the virus.
Quebec has reported 15,663 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, the most of any province.
On Thursday, Quebec’s director of public health, Dr Luc Boileau, confirmed that the province had entered another wave of COVID-19, but officials stopped implementing the new measures and instead asked people to receive a vaccine booster. urged.
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