[EN DIRECT 16 AVRIL] All the developments of the pandemic

Whether in Quebec or elsewhere on the planet, the COVID-19 pandemic has been disrupting our lives for over a year.

Here you will find all the news throughout the day related to this crisis affecting the population, governments and the economy.

LAST BALANCE SHEET

PLANETARY

Case: 139 134320

Dead: 2 987 479

CANADA

Case: 1,096,716 cases, of which 332 544 in Quebec

Death: 23,500, whose 10 778 in Quebec

All the news for Friday, April 16

1h25 | Spectators in the stadiums and customers at the restaurant: thanks to a controlled epidemiological situation, Denmark will be able to speed up its reopening from April 21, the government announced on Friday.

TO READ | Repentigny police have opened an investigation to shed light on a “strange” incident that occurred in a Jean-Coutu pharmacy, where an individual presented himself on the pretext of “having the mandate to check the vaccines in the laboratory”.

TO READ | Patients in the emergency department at Santa Cabrini hospital waited up to 200 hours on a stretcher before being taken care of, especially due to a COVID-19 outbreak that forced beds in a hospital to close. unit.

1h00 | There have never been so many Quebecers waiting for surgery as since the start of the pandemic, when the load shedding is starting again, to the chagrin of patients and surgeons.

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