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By Jillian Kestler D’Amours The Canadian Press
Fri., Aug. 21, 2020 timer 2 minutes. read
MONTREAL– A 19- year-old in Quebec has died from issues linked to COVID-19, the Health Department confirmed Friday, marking the very first time since the pandemic hit that somebody in the province under the age of 20 has caught the illness.
Spokeswoman Marie-Claude Lacasse said in an emailed statement the Health Department can not launch any info about the identity of the person who passed away, or any details about the death.
The province said 3,279 people between the ages of 10 and 19 have actually tested favorable for COVID-19 to date. Amongst those cases, 31 individuals needed to be hospitalized, including six who remained in extensive care.
Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu provided her condolences to the family of the 19- year-old Friday, as did Quebec Premier François Legault.
” It’s hard to find words for just how much suffering that household must be going through right now,” Hajdu informed a news conference in Ottawa.
” It’s unpleasant, it’s stressing,” Legault told press reporters northeast of Montreal, regarding the young man’s death.
“( COVID-19) attacks vulnerable individuals more, people who are older, however youths are not immune,” the premier stated, worrying the requirement to use a mask to avoid the potential spread of the fatal infection.
Dr. Brian Ward, a teacher of infectious illness at the McGill University Health Centre, said while COVID-19 poses a higher risk to older individuals and individuals with medical problems, young people can still end up being seriously ill from the disease.
” It’s not the first death on the planet of someone under the age of 20,” Ward stated in an interview Friday. “Therefore, as long as Canada continues to build up cases, we can expect more deaths across the age variety.”
Dr. Earl Rubin, a professional in pediatric transmittable diseases at the Montreal Children’s Healthcare facility, stated youths dying from COVID-19 is a “really unusual event,” and the majority of youth who do test positive do not require to be hospitalized.
But, he said, the 19- year-old’s death might act as an important reminder for youths to follow public health guidelines.
” It is a wake-up call that (COVID-19) is still an illness that they need to be aware of and do whatever they can to alleviate the chance of acquiring it and after that transferring it to others,” Rubin said in an interview Friday.
” It simply strengthens that we are far from out of the woods and with a second wave potentially upon us, it’s important to keep in mind and to heed and learn from it, more than anything else.”
Meanwhile, Quebec reported 93 new COVID-19 cases Friday, for an overall of 61,495 Public health authorities also reported 3 more deaths credited to COVID-19 They stated one death happened in the past 24 hours while 2 others occurred between Aug. 14-20
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Quebec has reported a total of 5,733 deaths linked to the novel coronavirus.
The number of hospitalizations dropped by 10 to a total of 136 on Friday. Of those, 23 individuals are in intensive care, two fewer than a day earlier. Authorities stated they carried out 16,164 COVID-19 tests Wednesday, the last day for which testing information is offered.
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