The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for Monday, Feb. 1, 2021

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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):
11 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 890 new cases of COVID-19 and 32 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including 14 in the past 24 hours.
Health officials said today hospitalizations rose by eight, to 1,144, and 183 people were in intensive care, a drop of eight.
The province says 796 doses of vaccine were administered yesterday, for a total of 239,023.
Quebec has reported a total of 263,473 COVID-19 infections and 9,826 deaths linked to the virus.
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10:45 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 1,969 new cases of COVID-19 and 36 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said today 886 of those new cases are in Toronto.
The Health Department says that as Toronto migrates to the provincial data system, additional records are being reported for the local public health unit, resulting in an overestimate of today's daily numbers.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 1, 2021.

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