COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know on Friday

• Quebec reported 905 new cases of COVID-19 and 12more deaths, fourof which were in the past 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been 98,226confirmedcases in the province and6,106people have died.
• There are540peoplein hospital (a decrease of 13), including 99 in intensive care (a decrease of two). Here's aguide to the numbers.
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Quebec's deputy premier,Genevive Guilbault,has a message for the greater Quebec Cityarea, currently the epicentre of the second COVID-19 wave in the province: get your act together.

"I want to be extremely frank and crystal clear with you: if we keep on the same track as we currently are [on], we are going straight into a wall," she said.

Guilbault said the health-care system will have to start cancelling procedures like hip replacements and delaying cancer diagnoses if COVID cases continue to increase.

WATCH| Guilbault says "we are going straight into a wall"

'We are going straight into a wall'

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Deputy Premier Genevive Guilbault warns residents in the Capital and Chaudire-Appalaches regions that they're approaching the point of "breakdown" in the health care system and they need to bring the COVID-19 transmission under control.

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