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Quebec has seen its number of COVID-19 cases jump 75% in the past week and everything suggests that the province will continue its momentum, it and Ontario having unveiled on Sunday unparalleled data since the start of the May.
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La Belle Province has recorded no less than 896 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, while four deaths have been recorded. We have to go back to May 8 to find a worse toll in terms of new cases, when the province was however testing three times fewer people per day.
Taking this recent data into account, Quebec has accumulated an average of 622.7 infections per day during the last week, from September 21 to 27. This is a jump of almost 75% from the 356.3 average cases per day counted during the previous week, from September 14 to 20.
In barely six weeks, Quebeckers have succeeded in reversing all of their progress in the fight against the pandemic. Since mid-August, the average number of cases has multiplied by 8.5, which had dropped to 73.5 during the week of August 17 to 23.
Not unique
Little comfort: Quebecers are not the only ones to be swept away by the second wave. Ontario, too, took a step forward on Sunday with 491 new infections and two deaths. This is the highest number of contaminations in this province since May 2.
With a population almost twice the size of Quebec, Ontario recorded an average of 426 daily infections from September 21 to 27. This is a marked increase of 27% compared to 335 contaminations per day the previous week.
Despite these major leaps in the country’s two largest provinces, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, said on Sunday that Canada has “a chance to prevent further escalation of the epidemic. if we all act together now ”.
She thus called, once again, on Canadians to respect public health instructions and, above all, to limit gatherings to stem the spread of the virus.
“Outbreaks of cases leading to a jump in hospitalizations can quickly overwhelm public health resources and the health system on a total scale,” she warned while Quebec has almost twice as many people hospitalized and in intensive care only in mid-September.
Elsewhere in the country, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have spared the “Atlantic bubble” on Sunday. Data was expected from the Praires in the early afternoon, while British Columbia and Alberta do not update their numbers on weekends.
There were a total of 1,387 cases and six deaths in Canada at midday, for a toll now amounting to 153,058 infections and 9,268 Canadians having died while carrying the virus.
The situation in Canada:
- Quebec: 71,901 cases (5,825 deaths)
- Ontario: 49,831 cases (2,839 deaths)
- Alberta: 17,343 cases (261 deaths)
- British Columbia: 8,641 cases (230 deaths)
- Saskatchewan: 1,863 cases (24 deaths)
- Manitoba: 1,829 cases (19 deaths)
- Nova Scotia: 1,087 cases (65 deaths)
- Newfoundland and Labrador: 272 cases (3 deaths)
- New Brunswick: 200 cases (2 deaths)
- Prince Edward Island: 58 cases
- Yukon: 15 cases
- Northwest Territories: 5 cases
- Nunavut: 0 cases
- Canadian returnees: 13 cases
Total: 153,058 cases (9,268 deaths)
