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Although Quebec has to date genetically sequenced only 163 Delta cases — up by 23 since Wednesday — the medical director of the Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec acknowledged this is likely an underestimate and is warning that the province might be hit with a fourth wave this fall driven by the much more transmissible variant.
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And the executive director of Montreal’s centre-west health authority echoed that concern, noting that Delta has led to an increase in hospitalizations in both Israel (where more than 57 per cent of the population has been fully vaccinated) and the U.S.