Quebec is reporting 17 more COVID-19 deaths and a 15-patient rise in hospitalizations today, one day after health officials formally declared the province was into a seventh wave of COVID-19.
The Health Department says there are 1,549 people hospitalized with the disease after 186 patients were admitted and 171 were discharged.
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There are 41 people listed in intensive care, a decline of two patients.
Authorities report 1,597 new cases through limited PCR testing, and more than 7,300 health network staff are off the job because of the virus.
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Quebec has had 15,663 COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, the most of any province.
On Thursday, Quebec public health director Dr. Luc Boileau confirmed the province had entered another wave of COVID-19, but officials stopped short of imposing new measures and instead urged people to get a vaccine booster.
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