More variants of the virus are likely, he said, creating a pandemic that could persist for months or years.“Instead of looking for the date when all this will end, we will have to learn to live with the virus,” Dubé said. “We will have to accept a certain number of cases and a certain number of hospitalizations if we want to return to a normal life.”Daily COVID-19 cases continued to rise Friday in Quebec, with health officials reporting 750 new infections.
They had reported 699 new cases Thursday. Of Friday’s cases, 83 per cent involved people who weren’t adequately vaccinated, according to the Health Department.Officials also reported two more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus and a rise of nine hospitalizations compared with.