Study estimates Quebec recorded up to 32,000 new daily COVID-19 infections last week – CBC

Cases rose 20% to 40% in one week, research centre says

Apr 04, 2022

There were between 18,000 and 32,000 new COVID-19 infections per day last week across Quebec, according to an estimate released Friday by a Montreal-based research centre.

The results of the study by CIRANO should make Quebecers take the sixth wave of the pandemic seriously, Roxane Borges Da Silva, a professor at Université de Montréal’s school of public health who worked on the research, said in an interview.

The Quebec government, she added, should strengthen its messaging on COVID-19 and reconsider its plan to lift mask mandates in mid-April.

“It’s a very significant rise — non-negligible and worrisome — especially for those who are vulnerable to COVID and to health workers,” she said.

Late Monday, the premier seemed to be leaning in that direction, telling reporters “of course we have to continue to be careful.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-sixth-wave-covid-cases-1.6408198