2022-01-03 from ctvnews.ca

More than 400 staff members at one Quebec hospital tested positive for COVID-19, with around 400 others in isolation for “challenges related to COVID-19,” said Martin Beaumont, CEO of CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval.

“This number you can imagine is [putting] pressure to our services,” he told CTV News Channel on Monday. Beaumont said 443 staff are infected with the virus.

Medical appointments and operating room activities will be nearly cut in half starting on Wednesday. He previously said that as many as “10,000 appointments could be rescheduled or converted to telehealth.”

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