The situation of COVID-19 in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean continues to improve, as good weather is coming in for good and the obligation to wear a mask will be removed almost everywhere starting Saturday.
Thus, the decline in COVID-19-related hospitals continues. According to a report published on Thursday by the National Institute of Public Health (INSPQ), there are now 46 people hospitalized, one less than the day before. You have to go back on March 26 to find the very low number, which was the beginning of the sixth wave.
The highest number of hospitalizations was reached on April 19 with 98 hospitalized.
There is currently only one person in intensive care and no new deaths have been added. That is why the balance remains at 433 deaths since the pandemic began. Since the beginning of the year, 143 people have died from COVID-19, compared to 59 in 2021 and 229 in 2020.
In Canada, the bar of 40,000 deaths has been exceeded.
As for active cases in groups with access to PCR testing, there are now 592 in the region, down eight from Wednesday.
Source: Radio-Canada