The sixth wave is already beginning to be felt in Quebec, and even in the regions, 8,600 health workers are suffering from the disease, not mainly due to Govt-19.
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Within a week, more than 60% of health workers had to be absent due to Covit-19, said Luke Boylo, Quebec’s national director of public health, on Sunday. morning.
D.R. Boileau is concerned about the shortage of staff it creates.
” [Les travailleurs] The infection should not be brought back to hospitals or care facilities, but they are affected and we cannot easily return them, ”he said.
It is still too late to confirm that Quebec has sunk in the sixth wave, but Luc Boileau reiterated that the province is approaching it.
While last-minute press conferences are often used to convey bad news to Cubs, the doctor’s speech is meant to remind vulnerable people to protect themselves from escalating cases.
At least two of the three Govit cases are believed to be linked to the BA.2 variant, which is 30-40% more diffuse than Omicron, he said.
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Unlike previous waves, Montreal and its hospitals did not appear to be at the center of the epidemic, as they were at Verdun Hospital last year.
Keep track of areas
Luc Boileau says he is closely monitoring the situation in remote areas, which were highly protected during the fifth wave.
Roxanne Borges da Silva, a professor at the University of Montreal School of Public Health, affirms, “There is a kind of immune innocence, and people of different types are less immune.
“Because they are generally less vulnerable, compliance with restraint gestures may be less. The relaxation of these measures further motivates them to reduce their safety,” he says.
Multiple increase
The increase in hospital admissions should be noted in many regions, including Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
“Our ability to care for patients is important to me. We have a lot of hospital resources in the Greater Montreal area, but this is far from the case. [dans d’autres régions] “Me Borges da Silva.
New adaptation
During the Fifth Wave, the rate of non-attendance of health workers in other regions was slightly lower than in Montreal, D said.R. Boylev.
They would have been less in contact with the virus and therefore less immune than their Montreal counterparts.
“If there is a very big wave with a large number of cases in the regions, how can the health system not come? Resources are already scarce than the big centers,” he said.Me Borges da Silva.
It lands in the city It rises in the regions
Active cases per 100,000 population
Montreal
- February 24: 160
- March 10: 108
- March 24: 138
National Capital
- February 24: 320
- March 10: 197
- March 24: 266
North Coast
- February 24: Four hundred and ninety-seven
- March 10: 530
- March 24: 706
Lower St. Lawrence
- February 24: 516
- March 10: 373
- March 24: 442
