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COVID-19 update: All of Quebec goes into green

COVID-19 update: All of Quebec goes into green

The Equity

Jorge Maria

Pontiac June 30, 2021

All of Quebec including the Pontiac moved to the Green Zone, Level 1–Vigilance status last Monday. 

Fully vaccinated Quebecers are. . .

no longer required to wear a mask or physically distance in private settings, Santé Quebec said in a statement last Friday.

The new rules are the least restrictive. A maximum of 10 can gather indoors from different households and outdoors a maximum of 20 can gather.

Places of worship can now accommodate up to 250 people.

Regional active figures continue to trend downwards, as the Outaouais had 67 active cases (12,472 total, 12,191 recovered) as of June 28, down one from June 21. There were only four hospitalizations at the designated COVID-19 centre in Hull, with one person in intensive care. The regional death toll did not rise from last Monday, and it stood at 214 as of June 28.

Within the RLS Pontiac, the CISSSO listed the following cumulative numbers on June 28*:

  • Municipality of Pontiac: 128 (no increase) 
  • Mansfield et Pontefract: 99 (no increase) 
  • Fort Coulonge: 48 (no increase)
  • Shawville: 34 (no increase)
  • Campbell’s Bay: 16 (no increase)
  • Waltham: 10 (no increase)
  • Bryson: 10 (no increase)
  • Otter Lake: 8 (no increase)
  • L’Île du Grand Calumet: 7 (no increase)
  • L’Isle aux Allumettes: 6 (no increase)
  • Bristol, Litchfield, Portage du Fort (five or less (minimum one case)
  • Sheenboro, Thorne: five or less (minimum one case)

(*It is important to note that none of these figures represent the active case situation)

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