The rise in cases of COVID-19 continues Friday in Quebec, when the authorities also identify 36 more hospitalizations as well as five additional deaths linked to the virus.
Posted at 2:35 p.m.
These five deaths bring to 15,564 the total number of deaths associated with COVID-19 that have occurred since the start of the pandemic in the province.
Quebec is also reporting 1,207 new infections on Friday, bringing the seven-day average to around 930, a figure that has been rising steadily for a few days already.
In the health network, there was an increase of 36 hospitalizations linked to the coronavirus on Friday. To date, 1,116 patients therefore remain hospitalized with or for COVID-19, 31 of whom are still in intensive care. On this plan, it is an increase of one bed in 24 hours.
On Wednesday, the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) said it anticipated that the increase in cases observed in recent weeks should lead to an increase in the number of hospitalizations. The number of people admitted should increase to around 100 a day within two weeks.
INESS, which is monitoring the evolution of the impact of the pandemic on the health network, notes that this increase is due to people hospitalized because of COVID-19 and not simply to patients admitted for another reason. , but testing positive for coronavirus. Thus, Quebec should have approximately 1,378 hospitalized patients within two weeks.
According to the VaccineTracker Quebec site, 5,005 additional doses of vaccine have been administered in the past 24 hours, the vast majority of which were third or fourth doses.
Nearly 87% of the general population has so far had one dose, while more than 83.5% of Quebecers have two. More than 52.4% of citizens have three doses, and just over 14% of them now have four.