Quebec’s toll continues to increase with 89 additional deaths related to COVID-19.
While the number of deaths in the past 24 hours has crossed the 80 mark once more, the rise in hospitalizations is on the decline.
Indeed, Quebec has 36 more hospitalizations, while 81 were reported on Monday, and 105 on Sunday. A total of 3,417 people are hospitalized. Two more beds are occupied in intensive care due to the virus, for a total of 289.
The Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, mentioned during a press briefing on Tuesday that the peak has still not been reached and that the priority remains to limit the number of hospitalizations.
Among the people with access to screening centers, 5,143 tested positive for COVID-19.
On the Ontario side, hospitalizations are still on the rise, with 4,183 people occupying a hospital bed (+296). Of this number, 580 are in intensive care. In the past 24 hours, 37 Ontarians have succumbed to the disease.
As in Quebec, access to PCR tests in Ontario remains limited. Thus, the province recorded 7,086 new infections on Tuesday.
Rest of Canada
West of Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have 847 and 1,104 new cases of COVID-19, respectively. Manitoba also recorded three new deaths.
The number of deaths is also on the rise in the Atlantic provinces, while Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador recorded one, three and four new deaths respectively. In the past 24 hours, there have been 415 new infections in Nova Scotia while New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador have 330 and 295.
The territories of Yukon and Nunavut both added 27 new cases. Additionally, one additional person has lost their life due to the coronavirus in Nunavut.
THE SITUATION IN QUEBEC AS OF JANUARY 18, 2022
- 806,296 people infected (+5,143)*
- 12,453 deaths (+89)
- 3417 people hospitalized
*336 entries
*300 outputs
- 289 people in intensive care
*41 entries
*38 outputs
- 93,730 doses administered are added, that is 88,673 in the last 24 hours and 5,057 before January 13, for a total of 16,576,407 doses administered in Quebec.
- Outside Quebec, a total of 261,736 doses were administered, for a cumulative total of 16,838,143 doses received by Quebecers.
* The number of cases listed is not representative of the situation since access to screening centers is restricted to priority clienteles
DEATHS BY REGION
- Lower St. Lawrence: 73
- Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean: 297
- National Capital: 1200
- Mauricie-and-Centre-du-Québec: 680
- Estrie : 462
- Montréal : 5034
- Outaouais: 241
- Abitibi-Temiscamingue: 29
- North Shore: 6
- Northern Quebec: 0
- Gaspésie – Magdalen Islands: 49
- Chaudière-Appalaches: 443
- Laval : 976
- Lanaudière : 603
- Laurentides : 564
- Montérégie : 1784
- Nunavik : 6
- Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James: 5
- Unknown: 0
- Outside Quebec: 1
Total: 12,453 deaths
Status in Canada
- Ontario: 963,693 cases (10,666 deaths)
- Quebec: 806,296 cases (12,453 deaths)
- Alberta: 452,381 cases (3,380 deaths)
- British Columbia: 299,146 cases (2,490 deaths)
- Manitoba: 111,432 cases (1,466 deaths)
- Saskatchewan: 121,641 cases (961 deaths)
- Nova Scotia: 30,669 cases (122 deaths)
- New Brunswick: 23,503 cases (192 deaths)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 13,327 cases (28 deaths)
- Northwest Territories: 4,055 cases (12 deaths)
- Prince Edward Island: 4,401 cases (2 deaths)
- Yukon: 2,747 cases (15 deaths)
- Nunavut: 1,222 cases (5 deaths)
- Repatriated Canadians: 13 cases
Total: 2,816,720 cases (31,817 deaths)
