The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, June 28, 2021

Jun 28, 2021 | 8:27 AM

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):

11 a.m.

Quebec is reporting 76 new cases of COVID-19 today and no deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus.

Health officials in the province haven’t reported a COVID-19-linked death since June 23.

Officials say they identified 178 cases on Friday and Saturday; the Health Department has stopped releasing COVID-19 data on weekends.

The province says COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped by 11 since Friday, to 124, and 31 people were in intensive care, a drop of nine since the last report.

10:45 a.m.

Ontario is reporting 210 new COVID-19 cases today and three more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus.

The numbers are based on 13,071 tests.

There were 218 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Monday and 287 patients in intensive care with COVID-19-related critical illness. 

The province says more than 180,300 COVID-19 vaccines were administered Sunday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 28, 2021.

The Canadian Press