Health authorities reported Thursday 2,136 hospitalizations linked to COVID-19 in Quebec, a decrease of 10. Among these, 67 patients are in intensive care, a stable number compared to the previous day.
Quebec also reports 18 additional deaths from the disease and officially lists 1,389 new cases of COVID-19.
1,153,048 infections have been reported, and 16,010 of them have been fatal.
Quebec’s national director of public health, Dr. Luc Boileau, will hold a press conference at 3:30 p.m. Thursday to provide an update for the second time in less than a week on the evolution of the current pandemic situation. of COVID-19 in Quebec.
Last Friday, Dr. Boileau said that the evolution of the number of new cases of coronavirus and hospitalizations tended to stabilize, but that the transmission of the virus remained high. He predicted that the seventh wave of COVID-19 would plateau in the following days before slowly fading away.
However, a comparison of the data suggests that this phenomenon has not yet clearly manifested itself.
With The Canadian Press
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