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MONTREAL - Quebec is reporting a major drop in COVID-19-related deaths immediately, with the 33 recorded within the final 24 hours representing a drop of greater than 50 per cent from the 68 logged a day earlier.
Well being authorities say the variety of hospitalizations declined for a fourth consecutive day, reducing by 12 to three,283.
There are additionally two fewer sufferers listed in intensive care immediately, bringing the whole to 273.
Officers are reporting 5,141 new COVID-19 instances immediately, however say the case depend isn’t consultant of the particular scenario as a result of PCR testing is proscribed to sure high-risk teams.
The province says it administered 75,299 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday.
The Well being Division says 90 per cent of Quebecers aged 5 and older have acquired a primary dose of vaccine, 83 per cent have acquired two doses, whereas 39 per cent have now acquired a booster shot.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 23, 2022.