COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know this weekend

• Quebec reported 910new caseson Sunday and 15 more deaths. Two previously reported deaths are no longer attributed to COVID-19.
• Since the start of the pandemic, there have been276,790confirmed cases and10,214 people have died.
• There are 805 people in hospital (a decrease of seven), including 132in intensive care (an increase of two).
• 1,561doses ofvaccine were administered on Saturday.A total of 293,944doses have been administered since Dec. 14, accounting for three per cent of the population.
• Businesses and other services are gradually reopening. Here's a list of what is open, and what is still closed.

Public health authorities in Quebec's north are beginning an ambitious campaign to vaccinate most of the population in the region against COVID-19. They want to vaccinate at least three quarters of the 14,000 residents of Nunavikin three weeks.

Thousands of doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived in the community of Kuujjuaq earlier this week. From there, they'll be distributed to to Nunavik's 14 Inuit communities in one of thelargest vaccinationcampaigns the Nunavik region has ever seen.

Teams will visit the communities one after another, and set up inlocal community halls, gyms and health clinics to administer the vaccines.

Meanwhile, advocates say people with Down syndrome need to be given higher priority for vaccination in Quebec.

People with Down syndrome are currently in the eighth of 10 groups in Quebec listed as priority cohorts, described aspeople under the age of 60 with chronic health conditions or health problems that placethem at higher risk of contracting COVID-19.

Some studies have shown people with Down syndrome are more vulnerable to COVID-19 four times more likely to be hospitalized due to the disease and 10 times more likely to die from it.

Other provinces have moved people with significant disabilities higher up on their priority lists. Groups in Quebec are pushing for the government here to do the same.

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