The latest news on COVID-19 developments in
One of the new cases is in the province's northern zone and is a close contact of a previously reported case.
The other three cases are in the central zone and are related to travel outside
One of the cases is a university student who lives off campus and attends classes online.
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The province is dealing with five active reported cases.
One person is recovering in hospital with the disease.
The province has reported a total of 396 infections and four deaths linked to the novel coronavirus.
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With numbers decreasing in recent weeks, the government is proposing to ease several restrictions on business openings and public gatherings by the end of the week.
The possible changes, subject to public consultation, include allowing non-essential stores, hair salons and barbershops to reopen with capacity limits.
Another proposed change would ease the ban on social gatherings inside private homes to allow two visitors at a time.
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Legault says he's worried that people travelling to vacation destinations will bring new variants of COVID-19 back to the province.
While the premier says it may be difficult to determine which flights are essential, he says it's clear that flights to sun destinations are non-essential.
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Procurement Minister
Anand says
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Maj.-Gen.
Fortin, the vice-president of operations at the
That means only 171,093 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will arrive over the next two weeks, instead of the 417,300 doses previously expected.
Fortin says the deliveries over the first two weeks of February have yet to be confirmed, but
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Prime Minister
The variants of the novel coronavirus identified in the
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The province also reported 55 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including 16 that occurred in the prior 24 hours.
Health officials say hospitalizations rose by nine, to 1,500 and 212 people were in intensive care, a drop of five.
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Chief medical officer of health Dr.
There are now seven active reported cases in the province.
P.E.I. has reported 110 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
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Health Minister
Over the past three days,
There were 46 more deaths linked to the virus in
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