premier françois legault noted that 13 per cent of quebecers aged 12 and older have not received any doses of the covid-19 vaccine.
“it doesn’t sound like much, but it’s hundreds of thousands of people. we can’t afford to have these thousands of people in our hospitals,” the premier said.
legault asked vaccinated people to try to convince a non-vaccinated family member to get a vaccine.
quebec reported 515 new cases of covid-19 on tuesday.
no new deaths were reported, but hospitalizations continue to rise and are now at their highest level since june.
there are now 171 people in hospital, an increase of 24, while 19 new cases were admitted to icu since friday, for a total of 68.
the province said there were 10,042 additional vaccine doses were administered over the previous 24 hours.
since sunday, there were 17,887 tests conducted with an overall positivity level of 2.8 per cent.
since the beginning of the pandemic, quebec has reported 393,852 cases and 11,293 deaths linked to covid-19.
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meanwhile, fully vaccinated foreign nationals are once again welcome on canadian soil.
as of 12:01 a.m. tuesday, quarantine requirements were eased for non-essential international travellers who have had a full course of a health canada-approved covid-19 vaccine — pfizer-biontech, moderna, the oxford-astrazeneca shot, also known as covishield, or the single-dose johnson & johnson option.