COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know on Friday

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Two new Quebec regions are moving into high alert, qualifying as "red zones" with the public health restrictions that come with the category.

They are the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and Chaudire-Appalaches regions, and restrictions will be in effect as of Monday midnight. Of the 19 health regions in Quebec, 12 are now red zones.

Testing has been an ongoing issue. There is news that the province will be receiving a much larger batch of rapid COVID-19 testing kits than expected about 453,000 in total, with a little less than halfarrivingby the end of this week.

Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu confirmed thosenumbers on Thursday during question period inthe House of Commons.

That means Quebec will receive about37 per cent of the 1.2 million rapid testing kits being deployed across Canada by the federal government.

Arruda says vaccination likely coming in early 2021

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Quebec's director of public health said on CBC Montreal's Daybreak that the province's most vulnerable may be able to get a COVID-19 vaccination in the spring, or even earlier.

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