The death toll from COVID-19 doubled on Saturday to 44, a high last reached almost a year ago.
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In just two days, the number of deaths to be deplored rose from 22 to 44, according to data from the daily reports presented by the Quebec government.
This last figure has more than tripled in just one week, since there were 18 deaths on the 1is January.
This is the worst record that the province has posted since January 27, 2021, since it is to this date that we must go back to reach the number of 45 dead.
However, Quebec is far from the death record that was reached on April 29, 2020, where 152 were reported.
Hospitalizations
The province is also seeing a sharp increase in hospitalizations. There are now 2,594 due to the virus, an increase of 163 compared to the previous day.
Of this number, 245 are in intensive care (+16), which implies that the alert level 2 threshold, set at 244, has been exceeded. It should also be noted that the number of people admitted to intensive care has more than doubled in just two weeks.
La Belle Province also recorded 15,928 additional cases out of nearly 59,500 tests carried out in screening clinics.
Elsewhere in the country
On the Ontario side, 122 more people were admitted to hospital due to COVID, bringing the number of hospitalizations to 2,594. The most populous province in the country has 385 people in intensive care, or 47 of more than the day before. Since the start of the pandemic, 10,345 Ontarians have lost their lives (+31).
On the Atlantic side, New Brunswick has 421 new cases of COVID-19 as well as one additional death.
In Nova Scotia, the outbreak continues to soar with 1,145 new infections with the virus.
Health officials have asked people diagnosed with COVID to notify their close contacts.
“Due to a skyrocketing number of tests and cases, there are delays in the follow-up carried out by Public Health,” read a statement released on Saturday.
Situation in Canada
- Ontario: 866,632 cases (10,345 deaths)
- Quebec: 728,286 cases (11,917 deaths)
- Alberta: 395,252 cases (3,338 deaths)
- British Columbia: 276,875 cases (2,439 deaths)
- Saskatchewan: 89,821 cases (961 deaths)
- Manitoba: 94,850 cases (1,408 deaths)
- Nova Scotia: 25,088 cases (112 deaths)
- New Brunswick: 20,278 cases (171 deaths)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 7,537 cases (21 deaths)
- Northwest Territories: 2,801 cases (12 deaths)
- Yukon: 2,125 cases (15 deaths)
- Prince Edward Island: 2,463 cases
- Nunavut: 977 cases (4 deaths)
- Canadian returnees: 13 cases
Total: approximately 2,512,998 cases (30,744 deaths)
