While the number of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 change hour by hour, what they consistently show is that ground zero for the pandemic in Canada is Quebec.
With only 22.6% of Canada’s population, Quebec recorded as of Friday morning 61% of all COVID-19-related deaths in Canada (3,351 of 5,499), and 55% of all cases (40,724 of 73,837).
Quebec’s mortality rate of 395 deaths per million of population is 169% higher than Canada’s at 147 deaths per million and 49% higher than the U.S. rate of 265 deaths per million.
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