[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Quebec has the highest death toll in the country, representing more than half of Canada’s 9,249 fatalities attributable to the respiratory illness.Hospitalizations also continued to rise Friday.
The number of patients increased by 15 to 199.Of those, 33 are in intensive care. That is an increase of two from the previous day.On Wednesday, the latest day for which data is available, 36,060 tests were administered.