Quebec reports 66 more deaths due to COVID-19, hospitalizations down by 116

Quebec reported on Saturday that 66 extra folks have died attributable to COVID-19.

Because the pandemic started, 13,179 folks have died because of the novel coronavirus within the province, the well being ministry says.

Hospitalizations within the province dropped by a web complete of 116, dropping the overall hospitalizations to 2,975.

The variety of sufferers in intensive care models elevated by three to 231.

Provincial health-care professionals analyzed 30,423 samples and three,510 of these had been constructive for COVID-19. The positivity price is thus 11.2 per cent. 

That's not the precise variety of constructive COVID-19 instances, as PCR screening centres are reserved for precedence clientele. 

The Ministry of Well being is monitoring 1,474 energetic outbreaks.

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  Ali Chaudhry, co-owner of Baba & Zazu clears a desk at his restaurant as a buyer seems on in Montreal, Tuesday, January 25, 2022, because the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes