Both regions have risen significantly in the last week, with Montreal now nearly at a rate of 150 cases per 100,000 and Laval above 160.President Joe Biden, with first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, speaks at an event hosted by the Democratic National Committee to thank campaign workers at Howard Theatre in Washington, DC, on November 10. On the national list, Montreal and Laval were tied at 11th and 12th, both with a weekly average of 103.7 cases per 100,000. Local health authorities didn't respond to a question about whether they believe the low vaccination rate is a leading factor in the high infection rates, speaking only about schools. In particular, the area of Haut-St-François has a vax rate of 73 per cent, and Granit falls just below 75 per cent. Other parts of the Eastern Townships also show low vaccination rates, with only a single subdistrict, Memphrémagog, hitting 80 per cent. The Des Sources subdistrict also has the province's highest rate of COVID-19 as of Monday, exceeding even Nunavik's average, with 1,097 active cases per 100,000 people, according to provincial data. The percentage of local people who have gotten at least a first dose, 74.6 per cent, isn't much higher. The vaccination rate there, just below 72 per cent of the eligible population, is the lowest in all of the Eastern Townships. Val-des-Sources is part of the Asbestos or Des Sources subdistrict. In Quebec as a whole, 81 per cent of eligible people over age five have been vaccinated. While that group has begun vaccination, there will be a lag time before it's protective.ĭES SOURCES REGION HAS OVER 1 INFECTION PER 100 PEOPLEīut vaccination rates among adults are well below Quebec's average in several of the subregions within the Eastern Townships, including around Val-des-Sources. In the last week, 34 per cent of cases have been among children aged five to 11, they said. "The major outbreaks in Estrie come mainly from elementary schools in the region," they told CTV News in a statement Monday. Nunavik's numbers have been extremely high for months, and while some of the reasons for its outbreak have been examined, the crisis in the Eastern Townships, or Estrie, as it's called in French, has flown more under the radar.Īccording to Eastern Townships public health authorities, the virus is mostly circulating in schools. In the national chart, it was behind only a public health district in Miramichi, New Brunswick, in the number-two spot, and Nunavik, Quebec, which tops the national chart with a weekly average of 631 cases per 100,000. As of Monday, the region had 282 active cases for every 100,000 people, or almost three infected people out of every 1,000 people. The Eastern Townships' overall average over the last week has been 206 cases per 100,000 people, according to daily charts maintained by an Ontario statistician.īut as Quebec has spiralled upwards quickly in the last week, so has the Eastern Townships. The situation is especially alarming around the town of Val-des-Sources, formerly known as Asbestos, which has the lowest vaccination rate in the region at only 71.7 per cent. The Eastern Townships, which lags in vaccination rates, continues to post the highest COVID-19 rates by far in southern Quebec - and in fact, the third-worst rates in Canada.
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