Analysis: Quebec falls from 1st to 7th in provincial vaccination rates We are not ruling out any strategy to encourage young adults. The goal is to get as many people as possible to get their second dose.
Author of the article: Aaron Derfel • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Jul 09, 2021 • 13 hours ago • 3 minute read • Raphaël Beaudoin gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot from Geoffrey Truchetti at a walk-in (or bicycle ride-in) vaccination centre at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in May. Only 16 per cent of Quebecers among those aged 18 to 29 has received two vaccine doses. Photo by John Kenney /Montreal Gazette
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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.
Quebec has so far genetically sequenced 16 cases of the Delta variant that is now being blamed for an early third wave of COVID-19 infections in the U.K., the medical director of the province’s public health laboratory told the Montreal Gazette on Friday.