The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
11:15 a.m.
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Quebec is reporting 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 39 additional deaths due to the virus.
Hospitalizations declined by 26 to 1,264, while the number of people in intensive care dropped by nine to 212.
Two deaths were removed from the provincial count after an investigation found they were unrelated to COVID-19, for a total of 9,667 deaths and 258,698 cases since the pandemic began.
The province delivered 3,767 doses of vaccine yesterday, and has used up all but about 5,100 of the 238,100 doses it has received so far.
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11 a.m.
Schools in four more public health units in southern Ontario can reopen for in-person learning on Monday.
The government says students will be able to return to physical classrooms in the Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Southwestern, and Middlesex-London public health units.
All students began their winter term online as part of a provincial lockdown, and the government extended remote learning for many as the province continues to fight COVID-19.
The government allowed schools in seven other public health units to resume in-person learning this week, but students in the rest of southern Ontario’s public health districts continue to learn online.
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10:50 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 2,093 new cases of COVID-19 and 56 more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 700 new cases in Toronto, 331 in Peel Region, and 228 in York Region.
The province reports nearly 12-thousand doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered since the last daily update.
Ontario says it had misinterpreted data on the number of people who received both doses of the vaccine, leading to an incorrect doubling of that figure in previous updates.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 28, 2021.
The Canadian Press
