COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Thursday
CBC
Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccines administered on weekends and public holidays.
Montreal public health officials will hold a news conference on COVID-19 Thursday morning.
Montreal alone reported 1,757 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday.
Dr. Mylène Drouin, the head of Montreal public health, will be leading the conference. Sonia Bélanger, who runs the health authority representing the city's downtown, the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, will also be in attendance.
Some testing centres in the Montreal region reported very high volumes of people attempting to get tested Wednesday.
In the east end of the city, people reportedly waited over four hours at the Chauveau testing centre in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. Some locations, including the Olympic Stadium site, are switching to appointment-only testing, due to the demand.
The positivity rate for the city is now 16 per cent — a new high.
Premier François Legault announced new restrictions Wednesday on indoor gatherings as of Dec. 26, in an effort to slow the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant and limit hospital admissions.
Indoor gatherings in the province will be limited to six people — or two family bubbles.
Officials stopped short of announcing a curfew, which sources told Radio-Canada was discussed in a meeting yesterday evening but eventually dropped.
Businesses and restaurants will remain open and people can still hold indoor gatherings of up to 10 people until the 26th.
Quebec reported more than 6,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic. Legault said that number is up to 9,000 for the cases reported in the past 24 hours.
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