COVID-19 updates as of Friday.Instead, weekly updates will be provided every Thursday starting on July 2. Quebec reports 7 coronavirus deaths and 49 additional cases The most recent numbers released Wednesday, show 53 new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected persons since the beginning of the pandemic to 54,937.A total of 5,441 people in the province have died of the illness, including 17 new deaths since yesterday.
Officials say, however, that six of those fatalities happened before June 16.The number of people requiring hospitalization continues to drop.