Quebec records 14 new COVID-19 deaths as hospitalizations drop slightly

As of Friday, there were 2,109 COVID-19 hospitalizations — 716 of them specifically due to the disease — a decrease of 27 compared with Thursday’s total. Of those patients, 57 were in intensive care, a drop of 10 from a day earlier; 27 were in the ICU specifically because of COVID-19. The number of health-care workers absent because of COVID-19 — either due to being in isolation or as a precaution — stood at 4,910. Quebec’s COVID-19 death toll is now 16,024.