After posting a record for daily contaminations on Thursday, Ontario experienced the worst daily death toll since last June, reporting 45 deaths from coronavirus disease.
The province now has 3,916 deaths from the virus.
With the 1,848 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Friday, Ontario now has 136,631 infections, cumulative. The regions of Toronto and Peel remain particularly affected by the health crisis with 469 and 386 new cases respectively on Friday.
It should be noted that the Ontario authorities have decreed that the health regions of York and Windsor-Essex, like Toronto and the suburbs of Peel, will also find themselves in confinement. In their case, it will be from December 14 at 12:30 a.m.
In Quebec, 1,713 additional contaminations and 53 deaths were announced on Friday, a peak of several months. Six of them occurred in the past 24 hours.
La Belle Province has thus passed the milestone of 160,000 contaminations and is approaching 7,500 patients who have been killed by COVID-19. Sadly, hospitalizations are up 23 to 871 and 123 people are in intensive care, a jump of 10.
“It is in residences for the elderly that we have a lot of deaths. What we are going to do over the next few days is really to continue to have a very, very active outlook, and probably to tighten up certain measures at the level of retirement homes to ensure that community contamination is limited. in those places, ”said Minister of Health and Social Services, Christian Dubé, at a press briefing.
On Twitter, he also indicated that “each death is one death too many. The sharp rise in deaths is the result of the rise in cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks. We are asking to limit our contacts to protect our loved ones, our health network and our network staff ”.
Cases in Montreal have gone from 630 Thursday to 514 Friday. They also fell significantly in Quebec (304 to 143) and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (137 to 79). On the other hand, they increased in Lanaudière (82 to 143), in Estrie (108 to 129) and in Chaudière-Appalaches (99 to 106).
Manitoba has counted 447 cases and 14 deaths, pushing its numbers to 20,392 infections and 465 fatalities.
Nunavut has added 16 cases to its toll and Nova Scotia 9 infections.
As of Friday afternoon, Canada had 446,100 cases (+4033) and 13,221 deaths (+112).
The situation in Canada:
Quebec: 160,023 cases (7,435 deaths)
Ontario: 136,631 cases (3,916 deaths)
Alberta: 75,054 cases (666 deaths)
British Columbia: 40,060 cases (587 deaths)
Manitoba: 20,392 cases (465 deaths)
Saskatchewan: 11,223 cases (75 deaths)
Nova Scotia: 1,402 cases (65 deaths)
New Brunswick: 546 cases (7 deaths)
Newfoundland and Labrador: 354 cases (4 deaths)
Nunavut: 245 cases
Prince Edward Island: 84 cases
Yukon: 58 cases (1 death)
Northwest Territories: 15 cases
Canadian returnees: 13 cases
Total: 446,100 cases (13,221 deaths)
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