The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for Thursday, July 8, 2021

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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):
11 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 64 new cases of COVID-19 today and 10 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, nine of which occurred before July 1.
Health officials say hospitalizations dropped by two, to 101, and 23 people were in intensive care, also a drop of two.
The province says 113,084 doses of vaccine were administered yesterday and 42.7 per cent of people over the age of 12 are considered fully vaccinated.
Montreal reported 25 new cases today and no other region in the province reported more than 19 new cases.
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10:30 a.m.
Ontario reports there are 210 new cases of COVID-19 in the province and four more deaths linked to the virus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 52 new cases in the Region of Waterloo, 23 in Peel Region and 19 in Hamilton.
The Ministry of Health says 215 people are in intensive care because of COVID-19 and 145 are on a ventilator.
Elliott says a record high 268,884 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered yesterday for a total of more than 16.3 million given out in the province.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2021.

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