The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for March 22, 2021

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The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):
11:10 a.m.
Quebec is reporting 712 new COVID-19 cases and 15 deaths linked to the novel coronavirus, including three in the previous 24 hours.
Health authorities are also reporting increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations and intensive care cases today, with a dozen more patients in each category for a total of 513 in hospital and 114 requiring intensive care.
Authorities say an additional 21,180 vaccine doses have been administered for a total 966,566, representing about 11.4 per cent of the population.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Quebec has had 303,051 confirmed cases, 10,614 deaths and 285,682 recoveries.
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10:40 a.m.
Ontario is reporting 1,699 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths linked to the virus today.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says 500 of those new cases are in Toronto.
She says there are 318 new cases in Peel Region, 155 in York Region and 114 in Hamilton.
More than 31,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in Ontario since Sunday's update.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 22, 2021.

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