While the 40,000 residents of Quebec’s long-term care homes account for around half of one per cent of the province’s population, they’ve accounted for 64 per cent of the deaths associated with COVID-19 in Quebec, according to the public health institute.Nearly 4,000 people died due to COVID-19-related causes in Quebec’s long-term care centres and private seniors residences during the first wave of the pandemic.The report said it appears Quebec has done a better job of preventing COVID-19 from spreading to long-term care centres during the second wave than it did during the first.It said fewer long-term facilities were affected, there were fewer cases per facility and the proportion of fatal cases was lower. “However, it is necessary to.