In the last 24 hours 39 new COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Quebec. To find similar numbers, according to INSPQ data, we need to go back to February 2021.
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This is almost double the number of deaths in the province (21) compared to the previous day. Since the outbreak, 11,820 Quebecs have died from COVID-19, according to public health statistics.
The number of hospital admissions continues to rise (1750, +158), with 191 people in intensive care (+6).
In Ontario, hospital admissions are as high as the number of citizens in intensive care (288, +22) (+791). Health officials recorded 14 more deaths in their report Wednesday.
Elsewhere in Canada, two more deaths were added to Manitoba, registering 1,790 new cases on Wednesday. Saskatchewan (+541 cases), Newfoundland and Labrador (+479), New Brunswick (+779 cases and three deaths) and Yukon (+66) also updated their data.
Situation in Quebec as of January 5, 2022
- 680,308 affected (+14,486)
- 11 820 deaths (+39)
- 1,750 people have been admitted to the hospital
- 321 inputs
- 163 exits
- 191 are in the intensive care unit
- 29 posts
- 23 trips
- 94,191 doses were added, i.e. 92,506 in the last 24 hours and 1,685 before January 4, giving a total of 15,300,211 doses in Quebec.
- Outside Quebec, a total of 251,711 doses were administered, with a total of 15,551,922 doses received by Quebecs.
- 55,339 samples were taken
- Listen to what public policy analyst Patrick Terry has to say with Benoit Tutric on QUB Radio:
Deaths by region
- Pass-Saint-Laurent: 65
- Saguenay – Lac-Saint-Jean: 281
- Capital-Nation: 1150
- Mauritius-at-Center-to-Quebec: 602
- Estre: 420
- Montreal: 4899
- Outdoors: 224
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 21
- North Bank: 5
- Northern Quebec: 0
- Caspian – Magdalen Islands: 48
- Saudier-Appalachians: 400
- Laval: 954
- Lonadier: 550
- Laurentites: 536
- Montessori: 1654
- Nunavic: 2
- Terres-Chris-de-la-Boy-James: 5
- Outside Quebec: 1
- Area to be determined: 0
Total: 11,820 deaths
Situation in Canada
- Ontario: 828,032 cases (10,252 deaths)
- Quebec: 680,308 cases (11,820 deaths)
- Alberta: Approximately 379,374 cases (3,322 deaths)
- British Columbia: 266,710 cases (2,427 deaths)
- Saskatchewan: 87,708 cases (960 deaths)
- Manitoba: 89,050 cases (1,402 deaths)
- Nova Scotia: 20,658 cases (111 deaths)
- New Brunswick: 18,345 cases (168 deaths)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 6,554 cases (20 deaths)
- Northwest Territories: 2,419 cases (12 deaths)
- Yukon: 2,010 cases (15 deaths)
- Prince Edward Island: 1,862 cases
- Nunavut: 900 cases (4 deaths)
- Returnees to Canada: 13 cases
Total: Approximately 2,383,943 cases (30,513 deaths)
