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Most recent figures The National Institute of Public Health of Quebec reports 104 new ones in more than 24 hours, bringing the province’s total to 60,917.
The death toll increased from six to 5,715.
Although hospitalizations decreased from two to a total of 149, the number of patients in intensive care due to the virus increased from 3 to 123.
Two patients in China who recovered from COVID-19 months ago tested positive for coronavirus, raising considerations about the virus’s ability to remain and reactivate in inflamed people in the past.
A 68-year-old woguy from the central Chinese province of Hubei, where the new coronavirus first gave the impression in December, tested positive on Sunday, six months after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and cured. Another man who contracted the disease in April after returning from the test test tested positive in Shanghai on Monday.
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Canada’s Director of Public Health, Dr. Theresa Tam, issued a press release about a press conference on Thursday. The death toll in the country is 9,006 officially similar cases of COVID-19 and 120,844 cases.
Of those infected, 89% have recovered. Canada tested an average of 43,000 other people according to the day during the following week. Of these, 1% tested positive, with an average of 376 cases appearing a day.
During the following week, an average of 43,018 more people were tested for COVID19 according to the day across Canada, of which 0.9% tested positive, while #publichealth continues to #TestandTrace. https://t.co/ZArmpJMAM3
A committee of the Quebec legislature has begun to listen to experts on the concept of adopting a COVID-19 alert formula in Quebec.
But red flags are rising as experts say that such a system, which would take the form of a phone app, could pose a risk to citizens’ privacy.
At the same time, the other people most vulnerable to the disease, the deficient and the elderly, are the least likely to have the generation to download the app, Mavens said.
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Impact President Kevin Gilmore says he expects his team to play a home game at Saputo Stadium as opposed to a Canadian opponent, at the end of next week.
And, as decreed through the fitness officers, no more than 250 spectators will be allowed.
But that, there are many variables at stake.
Last Saturday, Major League Soccer announced that its normal season would continue to bet 18 more games starting Wednesday.
But although the league has released a schedule for the 23 U.S.-based clubs, Impact, Toronto FC and Vancouver have shone through their absence.
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Paul Toussaint, former chef of the well-known Haitian restaurant Agrikol, has opened a new Caribbean restaurant at Place des Festivals in downtown Montreal, Kamy.
“The pandemic has decimated Montreal’s restaurant industry and the center is a great structure that looks like a ghost town, but none of this has deterred Toussaint,” writes Brendan Kelly.
“If life is easy, something is wrong.” You’ll have to feel pain. You have to fall to get up. You have to get up, ” said Toussaint.
“I felt we had to. I’ll outsal my experience. Me to sell my culture, my Haitian, my Caribbean, my African culture. I’m optimistic.”
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The federal government had asked Canada’s airports, before the pandemic, to expand their emergency overtaking zones on the airport’s main runways.
Canada’s airports say the need is at the worst time imaginable, as passenger volumes and revenues have plummeted.
“This is a very bad situation,” said Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of Canada’s Airports Council. “Airports must necessarily arrive through the crisis. They use their reserves of money.”
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Michel Ricard, who owns 60 hectares of agricultural land 60 kilometres north of Montreal, said he expects to lose about $100,000 in cucumbers because he has no one to choose them this year.
In the face of the loss of season-experienced overseas staff due to coVID-19 and well-intentioned Quebec replacements that are not as fast, many Quebec farmers say they only wait for the season.
The Union of Agricultural Producers says there are approximately 2,000 less migrant employees than usual on Quebec farms.
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The Quebec Liquor Corporation (SAQ) stated that the accumulated value was based on manufacturers’ demands and exchange rate fluctuations.
The economic effect of COVID-19 on Quebec consumers has led the SAQ to delay the value changes that sometimes take place every May.
Sunday’s value accumulation is an average value accumulation of about 42 cents, consistent with the bottle. Prices for 926 other products will remain the same and fall for 44 products.
SAQ will increase the costs of 1828 products on Sunday https://t.co/dBGO8lLU5M pic.twitter.com/2Mj412U79e
With a global pandemic, depression-era unemployment, and widespread protests against racism and the police, 2020 has been a difficult year.
Not surprisingly, some Canadian respondents say 2020 is the worst year of their lives. Americans were even darker, and 58% said 2020 was the worst.
In Canada, Ontario citizens were the highs likely to decline, while citizens of Quebec and British Columbia. were the optimistic highs.
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When students from the Montreal domain return to school in 3 weeks, for many, it will be the first time with elegance in nearly six months. Their prolonged absence will be a challenge this fall for teachers who will also have to deal with the new COVID-19 prevention measures.
Time spent at school due to the pandemic has probably already had a profound effect on some students, according to researchers and educators who spoke with the Montreal Gazette this week. Some of the overall progression of young people is likely to be delayed.
See our full story here through Matthew Lapierre.
There are fifteen checkup clinics open in Montreal for others who need to have a checkup.
That was the scenario across Canada last night, according to Canada’s COVID-19 Stage Awareness Scoreboard.
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