COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Wednesday
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Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccines administered on weekends and public holidays.
Montreal public health will be holding a news conference Wednesday afternoon to provide an update on COVID-19.
The update comes as officials warn about the potential impacts of the Omicron variant, as cases continue to rise across the province.
Montreal's public health department previously said 14 cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant have been detected in the city — and only five of them are associated with travel outside the country.
They say that means the others acquired it in Canada, which suggests limited local transmission within Montreal.
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said in a morning interview on Radio-Canada that approximately 2,300 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
It's the highest number since January, when Quebec was in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic.
Premier François Legault says he hasn't ruled out changing gathering restrictions for the holidays.
"With 2,300 cases today, it wouldn't be responsible to not look at all the possibilities, and we have to keep measures that will have an impact on [decreasing] hospitalizations," he said.
"I'm very aware that Quebecers and, as I was telling my colleagues yesterday, Canadians are very fed up with the measures."
He said he also asked Ottawa for federal government employees to help administer vaccinations in the province.
"Right now, we need all our employees to vaccinate," he said. "We called them all back, but there aren't as many as we used to have for vaccinations, and that's really our priority now: the third dose and vaccinating five- to 11-year-olds."
"We don't know in a week or two where we'll be, and we're trying with our experts and the experts of the federal government to see how we can estimate the number of hospitalizations in the next week."
The federal government is set to announce new, expanded travel measures today in a bid to limit the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
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