Quebec reports highest daily COVID-19 count ever with more than 3,700 new infections

Quebec reported 3,768 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, its highest ever daily case count, a day after Premier François Legault warned the new numbers would be around that level and announced a slew of new public health restrictions.

The previous record, according to the adjusted numbers posted by the Quebec Institute of Public Health, was Jan. 6, with 2,880 cases.

Hospitalizations due to the disease increased by seven, and there were also seven more deaths. The positivity rate among COVID-19 tests now stands at 7.4 per cent.

More than half of the new cases (2,356) were found in people who had been double-vaccinated more than seven days prior.

Another 124 were found in those who had gotten one dose more than seven days prior, while 1,288 people who tested positive were unvaccinated or gotten one dose less than two weeks prior.