COVID-19: record of new cases in Ontario with nearly 2,000 infections

Ontario smashed its record for new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, approaching 2,000 infections per day.

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The most populous province in the country declared Thursday 1983 additional contaminations for a cumulative toll of 134,783 cases. The previous daily mark barely dated from Monday when 1925 more had been entered. We must add to this portrait 3871 fatalities to date, including 35 deaths in the last 24 hours in this province.

Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott once again spoke of a “critical point” for her province, noting that the areas to watch are still Toronto (+496 cases) and its suburbs of Peel (+515) and York (+208).

Ontario announced Thursday that it will begin immunizing health care workers working with seniors as of December 15 in two hospitals in Queen City, but a “very small number of doses” will then be available.

In Quebec, authorities counted 1,842 more infections and 33 deaths, including eight that occurred during the previous day. The number of hospitalizations increased by four, to 848. After the peak of 2,031 cases on Saturday – while a computer problem partly explained this spike – the contaminations varied between 1,564 and 1,842 during the last six days.

“It is up to each of us to act to protect our loved ones and prevent the virus from continuing to claim victims,” ​​Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé said on Twitter. We must limit our contacts and continue to respect public health measures. ”

It is in Montreal (+648 cases), in Montérégie (+207), in the Capitale-Nationale (+193), in Laval (+134), in Lanaudière (+129), in Estrie (+120) and in Mauricie / Center-du-Québec that we identified the most new infections Thursday.

Manitoba has reported 292 new cases and 13 additional deaths.

Nova Scotia (+4 cases), New Brunswick (+4) and Newfoundland and Labrador (+1) also updated the figures on Thursday.

As of afternoon, Canada had 439,456 cases (+4127) and 13,064 deaths (+86).

The situation in Canada:

Quebec: 158,310 cases (7,382 deaths)

Ontario: 134,783 cases (3,871 deaths)

Alberta: 73,488 cases (653 deaths)

British Columbia: 39,337 cases (559 deaths)

Manitoba: 19,947 cases (451 deaths)

Saskatchewan: 10,899 cases (71 deaths)

Nova Scotia: 1,393 cases (65 deaths)

New Brunswick: 546 cases (7 deaths)

Newfoundland and Labrador: 354 cases (4 deaths)

Nunavut: 229 cases

Prince Edward Island: 84 cases

Yukon: 58 cases (1 death)

Northwest Territories: 15 cases

Canadian returnees: 13 cases

Total: 439,456 cases (13,064 deaths)

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