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MONTREAL – The Quebec authorities is reporting no new deaths resulting from COVID-19 within the earlier 24 hours and dozens fewer individuals hospitalized with the novel coronavirus.
The Well being Division says there are 2,125 individuals in hospital with COVID-19, which is 51 fewer than its final report printed Friday.
The variety of individuals in intensive care dropped by one, to 67.
There have been 927 new COVID-19 instances declared by PCR take a look at out of 8,865 checks, for a positivity charge of 11.4 per cent.
The federal government says there are presently 5,014 health-care staff off the job for causes linked to COVID-19.
The province’s public well being director mentioned final week that the seventh wave of COVID-19 in Quebec was nearing a plateau and that the variety of new instances is anticipated to slowly decline within the coming days or even weeks.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 1, 2022.
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