COVID-19: Quebec reports 5 more deaths as hospitalizations continue to drop

Quebec is reporting five more COVID-19 related deaths on Sunday and a drop in hospitalizations by 23.

There are currently 1,456 people in hospital, including 98 in intensive care, which is a drop of two from Saturday.

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This comes as Quebec gets ready to lift its work-from-home order this week as pandemic measures continue to ease across the province and country.

Health authorities are reporting 691 active outbreaks across the province.

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Of the 15,604 PCR tests that were administered in the last 24 hours, 1,036 came back positive. This amounts to a positivity rate of 7.7 per cent.

The new deaths bring the provincial death toll to 13,974 since the start of the pandemic.