There are now 3,800 people who have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, health authorities announced Thursday, as confirmed cases in the province reached 45,495.
That’s up 82 from the 3,718 deaths reported Wednesday; COVID-19 cases in Quebec rose 720 from the 44,775 announced a day earlier.There are 1,504 people being treated for COVID-19 in Quebec hospitals as of Thursday, down 12 from the 1,516 reported Wednesday. Of those in a hospital, 176 are in intensive care, down seven from the 183 reported 24 hours earlier.
Quebec Premier Francois Legault, Quebec national director of public health Horacio Arruda, Christopher Skeete, a Laval MNA and Legault's parliamentary assistant for relations with English-speaking Quebecers, Laval Mayor Marc Demers and and Jean-Pierre Trepanier, director of public health for Laval, are holding today's Quebec's daily COVID-19 update at Place des Arts.Legault is spending Thursday in Montreal, which remains the epicentre of COVID-19 in Canada.
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