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Quebecs health minister is insisting for Quebecers to avoid social gatherings for at least 28 days.
Christian Dube made the announcement at a press conference on Friday after the province surpassed 70,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
“If we do this, I think that it’ll encourage people to understand that, yes, it’s an additional effort that we’re asking you to do, but there’s an end to it, he said. It’s for a month, it’s not permanent, we are asking you for one month of efforts to break this second wave.
In a news conference on Thursday, Dube specified hes asking Quebecers to avoid dinners, barbecues, parties, and other such gatherings between people who arent part of the same bubble. The measure is an attempt to halt community transmission that public health says is the culprit of Quebecs recent uptick in cases of COVID-19.
If members of the same bubble would like to dine together at a restaurant, they can do so, the government says.
Quebec health authorities reported 637 new cases of the disease on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 70,307 since the start of the pandemic.
Fridays update is the highest number of cases Quebec has reported over a 24-hour period since May 21, when it reported 718.
Four more people have died in the province, for a total of 5,814. Officials say the deaths took place between Sept. 18 and 23.
A significant portion of the cases have been recorded in the Montreal region (229, for a total of 32,292), while 132 cases have been recorded in Quebec City (3,483), 17 in the Eastern Townships (1,658), 38 in Chaudiere-Appalaches (1,098), 43 in Laval (6,831), 20 in Outaouais (1,230), 16 in the Laurentians (4,593) and 83 in Monteregie (10,281).
Dube announced that the entire metropolitan region of Montreal and the MRC Riviere du Nord -- including the Saint-Jerome area -- are now in the orange alert level on the provinces regional COVID-19 alert map.
Quebecs health minister will provide an update on COVID-19 in the province at 1:30 p.m. WATCH LIVE HERE
As of Friday, there are 199 people being treated for COVID-19 in Quebec hospitals, which is an increase of 15 from the number reported on Thursday. Of them, 33 people are receiving treatment in the intensive care ward, which is an increase of two over the past 24 hours.
Quebec reported another 313 recoveries on Friday, bringing the total number of people whove recovered from the disease in the province to 60,256 -- or 85.7 per cent of the cumulative cases.
Quebec reported that it completed analyses of 36,060 samples on Sept. 23 (Quebec reports its daily testing figures from two days prior). Health Minister Christian Dube said on Friday that this testing update beat Quebecs daily record.
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