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1) Just days after Premier François Legault floated the idea of possibly easing some restrictions in Outaouais, a #COVID19 outbreak flared up on Saturday in a private seniors’ residence in

1) Quebec on Friday reported five more cases of the feared P.1 variant, including a single case for the first time in the Capitale-Nationale region. In this thread, I will

1) In my Twitter thread yesterday, I wrote about how Montreal has continued to defy the odds in the third wave. But that doesn’t mean the #pandemic is over in

1) Quebec’s health institute has discontinued publishing daily data on the total number of screened variant #COVID19 cases. Instead, it’s now reporting only seven-day positivity rates. In this thread, I

1) In the past eight months, since just before the start of the second wave in the #pandemic, the sharpest growth in #COVID19 cases in Quebec has occurred in children

1) Quebec on Friday disclosed that #COVID19 hospitalizations dropped by 27 to 684. This represented the steepest decline in hospitalizations since Feb. 15., with most of the decrease taking place

1) If there was ever any doubt that the variants are truly driving the third wave in the #COVID19 #pandemic, consider this comparison between Quebec and Ontario. On Feb. 7,

1) Premier François Legault suggested Tuesday the government’s #pandemic restrictions “seem to be working.” A day later, however, there are signs in Montreal and across the province that the situation

1) Breaking: The numbers are small but still worth reporting: the Eastern Townships and Lanaudière confirmed for the first time on Wednesday a single case each of the P.1 variant

1) Since April 1, the age group in Quebec reporting both the greatest number of #COVID19 hospitalizations and the sharpest increase are those in their 60s, according to the latest

1) COVID-19 outbreaks in Quebec workplaces are not getting the attention they deserve, but they’ve been surging just as much, if not more, than those in schools. On Friday, the

1) The impact of the third wave on Quebec hospitals thus far is not nearly as severe as what is going on in Ontario, but there are ominous signs the