COVID situation stabilizing, but restrictions must be eased slowly: Quebec health director Hospitalizations continued to drop in the latest numbers released Monday, with 166 new COVID-19 patients admitted and 173 discharged for a decrease of seven over the previous day.
Of the 2,888 patients in hospital, 223 are being treated in intensive care units for a decrease of 10.Quebec added another 2,432 confirmed cases of COVID-19 for a total of 861,891 infections, since the start of the pandemic, while recoveries stand at 808,469.The province carried out 21,856 screening tests on Jan.
29, the latest date for which data is available.Case numbers to do not accurately reflect the current situation as testing at screening facilities continues to be reserved for priority groups.People, however can report their rapid test results on the Quebec government’s website.
To date 42,293 have been registered, 33,400 of which were positive.Meanwhile, 42,063 doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the last 24 hours for a total of more than 17.6 million shots given out in Quebec.