[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]During the peak of the first wave, people under the age of 60 accounted for 63.3 per cent of the 1,102 new cases reported within a 24-hour period on April 15.On Oct.
3, the province reported 1,166 new COVID-19 infections. People under the age of 60 accounted for 82.6 per cent — and 38.8 per cent of them were under the age of 30.The biggest statistical difference between the first and second waves of COVID-19, however, is the total number of deaths recorded in a 24-hour period.The INSPQ says the highest one-day death toll of the first wave was 152 deaths on April 29.