Quebec public health director launches a new call for COVID and flu vaccination

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According to the Quebec Director of Public Health, there are still around a hundred hospitalization cases linked to COVID-19 every day. Photo: Pexels

 

(Ugo Giguère/ CTV News) — Citing a “serious” circulation of COVID-19 and an imminent wave of influenza in Quebec, public health director Dr. Luc Boileau is urging people at risk to get vaccinated quickly.

Specifically, people aged 60 and over, and especially those over the age of 70, are being urged to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Boileau adds that people over 70 who have never been infected with the virus are particularly at risk of complications.

Citing a “serious” circulation of COVID-19 and an imminent wave of influenza in Quebec, public health director Dr. Luc Boileau is urging people at risk to get vaccinated quickly.

Specifically, people aged 60 and over, and especially those over the age of 70, are being urged to get a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Boileau adds that people over 70 who have never been infected with the virus are particularly at risk of complications. (…)

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